mirage造句

A mirage is an optical illusion.

Western liberalism was always a mirage.

Soon my father appeared as elusive as a distant mirage.

But for too many, that optimistic picture is still a mirage.

Now even the optimists fear this wonderful prospect may be a mirage.

The mirage, and with it hopes of a speedy recovery, has vanished.

It could well be that equilibrium in the pension fund by 2018 turns out to be something of a mirage.

The mountains and the nearby water are covered with a mysterious veil, which is like a picture of a mirage.

We cannot live without eating, cars do not run without fuel, and perpetual-motion machines are just a mirage.

It's like a mirage, where heat causes the bending of light rays and cloaks the road ahead behind an image of the sky.

Attracting entrepreneurs, fugitives, traders, spies and drifters from every corner of the world, the port rose “like a mirage in the desert, ” wrote one Japanese novelist.

At work, running on the spot (figuratively). A mirage of coffee is before me. Can I justify an espresso on the way to the bank?

Worst of all, says Mr Jones, although a few do manage to escape their backgrounds, by and large the talk of opportunity is a diverting mirage.

That may be because dark energy and dark matter, which together seem to make up 96 per cent of the universe's contents, might be a cosmic mirage.

You discovered first hand while meditating there, the area exuded a translucent wave field, similar to the mirage you see when observing heat rising from tarmac roads in the height of summer.

Yet the tomb of Cleopatra still hovers out of reach, like a tantalizing mirage, and the theory of who is buried at Taposiris Magna still rests more on educated speculation than on facts.