Hints and tips:
...By Ineos’ standards Manchester United is a small business, but I doubt whether anyone in Ratcliffe’s circle is under any illusion about the time required to restore the club to its glory days....
...Rachel Reeves says she is “under no illusions” about the scale of the challenge that lies in wait for Labour if elected after the government adopted two of its policies to fund tax cuts....
...Those lucky enough to set foot on the rooftop terrace of the Core Club’s new Manhattan headquarters may experience the thrilling illusion of being able to reach across Fifth Avenue and touch the Crown Building...
...“Nowadays, there is no place for nuance or understanding,” Ben Hania laments when we meet at a private members’ club in London’s Soho....
...Elizabeth is a researcher working in . . . let’s just call it “wellness”, that catch-all term that holds both hope and illusion....
...Governments can’t even agree on what institution in which to have talks (the World Trade Organization’s too sclerotic, the OECD’s a rich-country club, the UN is, well, the UN)....
...Here is the central problem with the EU’s approach to potential Bosnian entry into the club....
...“The illusion that suburbia remains somehow separate from America’s problems is no longer viable,” he writes....
...The landscapes and the people I encountered would give anyone the illusion they were in Arizona or Nevada....
...Based on Jean Poiret’s 1973 play, the musical tells the story of Georges (Billy Carter), owner of a Saint-Tropez nightclub, and drag queen Albin (Carl Mullaney), the club’s star attraction and Georges’ partner...
...Ron DeSantis and Arsenal Football Club have a shared affliction: they are almost certainly not going to win anything this season....
...Her nine-year-old daughter took karate lessons at a sports club next to an equestrian centre....
...So it was refreshing to hear a thoughtful take on the subject from sci-fi author Ted Chiang, who points out that even the language we use to describe these computer programs creates the illusion of sentience...
...Luxury’s grand illusion of rarity and abundance has conquered the world for decades. Soon, it may be tested....
...Movies are made from thousands of fragments, edited together to create an illusion of continuity, a realistic flow and, ultimately, a narrative....
...“In 1945, many Taiwanese had the illusion that they were returning to the motherland,” says 76-year-old Wang Wen-hung, whose father, a community leader in the southern city of Kaohsiung, was killed in a...
...“The illusion of greatness has returned with full force” even for those who do not care for football, Roger said. “We’re in a very bad [economic] state . . . this brings hope, relief.”...
...Turkey’s candidacy is little more these days than an optical illusion....
...But we’ve joined that club and we’ve experienced also a dramatic decline in the rate of productivity growth from what appeared probably partly illusory to be an exceptionally good performance by comparison...
...If I was running a bowling club and I said I was doing a collection for Mrs McDumpty’s gravestone and spent it on something else, would that be right?” said an SNP detractor....
...The 2008 financial crisis shattered that illusion, and this year’s expensive failures at Silicon Valley Bank and others show that the system has not returned to a state of stability....
...Tajikistan seems to have attempted a minimalist rabbit-duck illusion approach, where a viewer might see a mountain range or an eagle....
...They were all on the shelves — my mom was in a book club, and Kingsolver was (and remains) the queen of the book-club book....
...“Neon was used as the sign for forbidden pleasures – from ice-cream parlours to strip clubs,” says Turner Prize-winning artist Douglas Gordon....
...Meanwhile, the Bored Ape Yacht Club has a lineage of its own....
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