illusionistically

comparative more illusionistically · superlative most illusionistically

1. In an illusionistic manner.

   Sometimes these patterns illusionistically swell into lumps or sink into pockets; occasionally, lines will suddenly stop in the middle of nowhere, skip a beat in unison, then move on, leaving a strip of unmarked space like a tear in the surface, with light showing through.

   2007 April 27, Holland Cotter, “Off the Page and in the Air, Drawing Transformed”, in New York Times