Melanne Verveer

Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.

American Activist

David Josiah Brewer

The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.

American Judge

Ang Lee

My cultural roots are something illusive.

Chinese Director

Refers to something that seems real but deceives the senses or mind.

False Appearance

Used to describe hopes or goals that are enticing but unrealistic.

Overoptimistic Hopes

Can refer to tricky advertising that makes products appear better than they are.

Marketing Tricks

Emphasizes the creation of visual tricks that deceitfully impress.

Visual Deception

Often found in artistic contexts to describe a beautiful, but unreal, image.

Artful Expression

Can be used to describe scenarios that exist only in one's imagination.

Imagination Invoked

 of coevolution with our brains. And so what if we don't always see the world exactly as it is. There's a certain joy to be found watching stationary leaves waving on an illusive breeze,

Illusive