But it's only a fleeting illusion.

But the truly paralyzing thing was that even if he'd been willing to die, his death would accomplish nothing except, perhaps, to grant him a fleeting illusion of expiation.

Sharp grey eyes studied her carefully and perfect white teeth transmitted to her the fleeting illusion of a smile.

If hewas seen, he had only to create a fleeting illusion of Birdman features, and other scouts would assume he was one of their number.

Seeing the place again gives Ethan a fleeting illusion that he is a free man, and that he's wooing the girl he intends to marry.

For a moment, he wondered if he had already slipped into Death, if this was some fleeting illusion left over from life.

Its headlights produced a curious but fleeting illusion against a house wall opposite.

Nationalizing their fortunes had provided a temporary relief, a fleeting illusion of improvement, yet it could be no more than that, and so he'd given the mob the Legislaturalists themselves.

This serves to refocus the parents' attention and to give a child some fleeting illusion of control.

I'd been around the Internet long enough to believe that true computer security is a fleeting illusion.