Or is it technological mimicry, or mechanical metaphor, or clever illusion?

It was a clever illusion, but it was more than that.

He had thought of it, rather, as clever illusion, a prestidigitator's trickery.

In the end, Godiva's edgy rock-and-roll attitude is a clever illusion.

Certainly it was magic-or a clever illusion.

It had to be a trick, part of the funhouse tour, an incredibly clever illusion.

Were they going to try some clever illusion on him and make him think he had witnessed miniaturization?

Tis a most clever illusion,' Xanetia observed, touching the rock face on the left of the gate.

Was that power or clever illusion?

Silver becomes more and more "human" in loving her-a clever illusion created by his programming.