more illusory

To see more illusory faces, spend time thinking about them.

Add to that the hard reality that two of the Democrats’ 50 caucus members – Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin – are balking at most of the big stuff the president wants to get done, and that Democratic “majority” becomes even more illusory.

For SARS-CoV-2, herd immunity is unfortunately more illusory.

Consider, for example, what Bosley Crowther described as the “pertinacious troupe of style-magazine super-worldlings” in his New York Times review of “Funny Face,” the 1957 Hepburn-Astaire film he also noted proved that “there is nothing more illusory in our times than the costly adornment of females.”

A 2015 paper found that simply paying people to provide the correct answers diminished the gap between partisan responses to factual questions, suggesting, the authors wrote, “that the apparent gulf in factual beliefs ... may be more illusory than real.”