Up to a point, I have no quarrel with that grand illusion.
These days, background painters are using similar techniques to create their grand illusions.
It became our joke that the town's main minaret was a grand illusion.
"And they are trying to mask it all under the grand illusion" of budget cutting.
Our everyday reality is a grand illusion, a dream metaphor, which we are creating.
From the very beginning, the Winter Garden was a grand illusion.
The lawyers created the grand illusion that with them on hand, somehow all the chaos would be manageable.
Other grand illusions in his shows include being cut in half at the waist.
There was so little time, he could hope for no more than two minutes before they made their entry and shattered the grand illusion.
You are all assistants in a grand illusion, one final Blackwood trick.