When a deadline for a benefit is set to expire any associated economic measure will receive an illusionary bounce.

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This is obviously a more sci-fi direction, but would again retain the sense of illusionary realism to keep it from seeming too outlandish.

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He introduced a new group of artists like Zhou Tiehai and Ding Yi, who possess the unique temperament of Shanghainese artists: sensitive, radical, illusionary, subtle.

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It would retain the overall illusionary realism yet would push it about as far as possible at times, but balancing that with lots of crime solving detective work.

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Peppering this illusionary realism with the more outlandish elements works, precisely because audiences buy into the character so strongly due precisely to the false sense of realism in the character and his world.

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"Foreclosure sales, short sales and first-time homebuyers taking advantage of tax credits is purely illusionary and hides the underlying problems of lending and inventory, " says Anthony Sanders, a finance professor at George Mason University's Hall School of Management.

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