illusion

The experiment used what is known as an "enfacement illusion," a technique that helps people feel as though another face they see on a screen is actually their own reflection.

Atwood posits that “every question-and-answer session” is an illusion where there are “at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one who writes.”

While partygoers enjoyed the visual feast, the circumstances around them — empty shelves, reduced benefits and families navigating hunger — added a layer of unintended resonance with the novel’s cautionary tale about excess, illusion and disconnection.

We have this illusion that things are good, but around the corner is another dictator trying to come.

He has masterfully created the illusion of transparency, yet his life remains stubbornly opaque.