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Sentence Examples And I think there would be a mirage to believe that we are going to win this war with a swift action in Iraq. An erudite, doting wife, Eileen, who calls him darling in lovely, wartime tones, completes the cosy mirage. All that was palpable, tactile, realizable, was a distant mirage of dead spirit. It is only later, when the revolutionists have established themselves in power, that people see their obsessions were a mirage. Therefore, culture was for them, too distant a mirage, too transcendent an idea, beyond their comprehension and farthest from their grasp. Its bitonal ostinato and airy, whimsical melodies floating above create a convincing aural equivalent of a mirage. The coast was socked in with fog this morning, making an inland Southern California heat wave look like a mirage. That mirage, or intuition, revelation or dream opposes order to disorder, plenitude to emptiness, and to disgust wonder, hope, enthusiasm. With housing loans, possessing a domicile of your dreams is no longer a mirage. It was almost like a mirage approaching the urupa and seeing the group's sergeant on the horizon wearing a korowai. On the verge of his big break, Austin is house-sitting his mother's home in LA when Lee rolls up out of the desert like a bad mirage. Small dying flames flickered on his body, and he did nothing to remove them, as if the flames were merely a mirage. Once we enter the residential lobby we encounter the city's shadowland of mirage. Malaysia's hot pursuit a fortnight ago appeared like a mirage in Bahrain's desert expanse. But he said it was unclear whether the bulge indicated a jagged break in the wing or a mirage caused by atmospheric distortion. But pre-electoral promises are a mirage constructed to come to power and then the real agenda takes over. Across it, turrets of the small white mosque seemed as insubstantial as the wobbling outlines of a heat mirage. Yes, people had mirages in the desert, but what she was describing was clearly no mirage. They're so thirsty for it, they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there is no water, they'll drink the sand. Until this is agreed on, the concept of intermediate care will remain a mirage and its possibilities unknown. Show More Sentences Staying in touch also helps you figure out whether he was the real deal or just a mirage. Under an Hour is a three-piece post-classical mirage of repetition and withdrawal. Its a mirage, a figment of some businessman's dream or an economists momentary flash of desperation. Surely, there were signs of our men accomplishing it but that proved a mirage. Basic services have not been funded and the long promised legislation has proved to be a mirage. The poor might have given him the edge this time, but how happy are they going to be when the promised economic sunshine proves to be a mirage? Outlanders often refuse to believe that Texas even has canyons or mountains, but this range is no mirage. After an hour we saw the horizon broken by a line of bushes, looking through the heat haze like a mirage. They were pursuing a mirage of infinite wealth in private aeroplanes, high on champagne and designer drugs. For those endowed with qualities such as sincerity, perseverance and competence, success is never a mirage. That which is empty and that which overflows resemble one another, a desert mirage and the ineluctability of the event. Elijah expected a beautiful mirage of glittering, ethereal beauty, the ultimate femme fatale, but now he knew not what to think. Like a mirage in a desert, counterfeit love cannot quench your thirst. It's when we pretend that the mirage is reality that we create a dangerous situation, one that everyone knows is there but no one will talk about. Theo and the little girl were now little more than two indistinct specks shimmering in the heat haze, a mirage that was beginning to flicker and break up. The sight of it, so serene and sublime, felt almost unreal, like a mirage or someone's dream vision of what this place could be. Hot days produce myriads of dust devils and the ill-famed mirage optical illusions. I found it beckoning, almost like a mirage, in the form of the Vino Volo wine bar. In the heat of the day it spreads a mirage of water over the horizon. Do we measure up to our tradition,beyond the temptations of withdrawing into ourselves and of accepting the mirage of economic globalisation? Show More Sentences Are we going to allow research to become the mirage of a new financial Eldorado? Instead, just as one who prefers a dreamworld to reality predictably would, what he saw is a mirage. They say that this seemingly solid, material world of 'sticks and stones' is more like a dream, or a mirage, than substantial reality. The idea that a country full of subsidies and public jobs is sustainable is a mirage and a sure-fire guarantee of greater social injustice. Have we achieved the lofty goals of the Official Languages Act, or are they still dancing in the distance, glimmering like a desert mirage? Reality is that non-proliferation will remain a mirage unless there is a total commitment to nuclear disarmament. He refers to this picture as a shadowgraph rather than a mirage for there are elements of truth of the commerce and industry picture that partially explains its persistence. We were hoping that sanity will prevail upon New Delhi and Islamabad and they will take a decision on reopening of the road but it again proved a mirage. Therefore, information technology does not appear as a mirage in Arab countries as it has moved smoothly into the lives and work of people just like other places in the world. A mirage is caused by a small refraction of light near a hot surface. The fourth and most important negative point is that the trumpeted recovery in business fixed investment, in particular in high tech, is just another statistical mirage. They are accountable for producing past profit reports that may have relied excessively on running down reserves to preserve a mirage of real growth. Those goals are like a desert mirage, and the sooner everyone realizes it the better the medium will be. The bridge is faint, shimmering slightly, as though it were a mirage. But like a sand-crusted desert crawler, forging his way towards a shimmering mirage of water, I found myself on the first day of my arrival scavenging for bagels. This week they got Mike Tyson and Razor Ruddock over at the mirage, where the fake volcano blows up every twenty minutes. They celebrated that the desert's apparent emptiness, and colorlessness, its flatness and dryness, are in many senses a mirage. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to join the debate on the stimulus package, parts of it arising from the government budget, the implementation of a package that is really a mirage. The beauty of McNair's performance is that it is totally up front, totally real, and yet it is itself a mirage, in that it simply encourages the audience to swap one belief system for another, the moneyless one. Studying galaxies imaged by the Sloan survey, Fischer and his colleagues took advantage of a cosmic mirage called gravitational lensing. Show More Sentences France created the Ivorian mirage of an economic miracle and national identity so it is clear that France is historically to blame. Observed in the Weddell Sea in 1823 but never again seen, New South Greenland may have been the result of a superior mirage. Auroras are a sort of mirage like a fata morgana. Therefore, with our vote on this resolution we should just like to underline our desire that it should not be another mirage from the propaganda that is customary at these times. The Conservative mirage hides a right-wing ideology that flies in the face of Quebec's values and that the Bloc Québécois will continue to fight against. Charlotte Haze is spared Quilty's fate because she is, from the beginning, not a mirage but an oppressive, dull, untransfigurable reality. His investigations turn up a few praiseworthy examples of international cooperation, but on the whole he finds himself drawn to a terrible, inescapable conclusion: humanitarian aid is a utopian mirage. Even before they could hear the murmur of the waves, the tall black outline of Mont Saint-Michel would come into sight, rising up from the pasture land like a mirage. We seem to be running after a mirage in the desert to slake our thirst! And the mountains shall vanish, as if they were a mirage. For most countries, promises of development have remained a mirage. Now, Dubai, the seven-star playground of the rich and famous, has been exposed as a mirage built on the shifting sands of funny money and false hopes. Examining a distant cluster of galaxies, the Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest picture ever of a cosmic mirage called gravitational lensing. Examples from Classical Literature All these things shimmered and flickered and wavered in the mirage of noon. I've often seen the mirage, generally about dark, far out on the western plains. Mr. Tarkington had some interesting things to say about that venerable mirage, the Great American Novel. I became absorbed in a sort of subaquatic mirage, in which I seemed to distinguish reflections beneath the surface. Why crystallize with a word the cloudland perfection of the mirage in which they walked? If he was a phantom and Kingswood a mirage, the phantom would reach the mirage or sink senseless into astral mud. Victory has proved as maddeningly elusive as a mirage for England's favourite racing son Jenson Button. In such way had vanished as in the mirage of a dream, Meringe, Somo, and the Arangi. Indeed, to an inlander, the Cape landscape is a constant mirage. Her form was only a mirage of desire decoying one step by step into despair. Now the unlikely idea of a superimposed mirage was dispelled. They stretch forth their hands to gather the mirage into their bosom. A pre-Elizabethan dietetic millennium is a retrospective mirage. A mirage made the sastrugi appear to be dancing like some ice-goblins. The mirage in Mesopotamia does not so much hide as distort the truth. And through the swaying, palpitant vision, as through a fairy mirage, he stared at the real woman, sitting there and talking of literature and art. There was an animation in the scene, a mirage of light, of which nothing now can give an idea, unless it be the fictitious splendor of a theatric spectacle. Like a mirage, it appears on the horizon and though its sandy exterior is at first unremarkable, what lies inside should impress even the weariest traveller. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of mirage? Words that rhyme with mirage What is the past tense of mirage? What is the plural of mirage? What is the adjective for mirage? What is the noun for mirage? Translations for mirage Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Miraflores mirador miraculousness miraculously miraculous miracles mirages Miranda Miranda rights Mirandese mire Mire 6-letter Words Starting With m mi mir mira mirag