What is another word for trick of light?

Pronunciation: [tɹˈɪk ɒv lˈa͡ɪt] (IPA)

The phrase "trick of light" refers to an optical illusion that creates the perception of something that isn't there. Synonyms for this phrase include a mirage, an apparition, an optical illusion, a hallucination, a phantasm, a specter, a vision, and a figment of one's imagination. These synonyms all describe a phenomenon that alters our perception of reality, often making it difficult to discern what is real and what is not. Whether it's a mirage in the desert or a ghostly apparition in a dark alleyway, a trick of light can be both fascinating and unsettling.

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Famous quotes with Trick of light

  • Standing still as a statue in the October shadows, he looked, grotesquely, more like a patriot than anything usually seen on a baseball field. A trick of light perhaps. Yet what famous athlete last died for a cause bigger than himself? Clemente could sometimes seem like a pest, a nagging narcissist, with only his burningly serious play to deny it. Yet when that plane crashed carrying relief supplies to Nicaragua we saw what he had meant all along. It was like the old Clemente crashing into the right field wall in a losing game: the act of a totally serious man. By chance I met Clemente once, in the humble role of autograph-seeker. He was doing wind sprints down at the Pirate training camp in Bradenton, Florida. And although I claimed I was getting an autograph for my son (true, for a change), he looked at me with a hidalgo’s contempt – at a grown man simpering over a blunt pencil; he turned his back abruptly and did another wind sprint, then slashed his name onto my scorecard and sauntered away. To hell with you, Clemente, I thought. But on the way out, I saw him funning with three old ladies from Allentown, Pennsylvania, and I have never seen sweeter courtesy.
    Wilfrid Sheed

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