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Sentence Examples In a commentary for Zmag he not only skewers the fanaticism and delusion of the right, but the failure of the supposedly liberal media. Some labor under the delusion that Alaska is smitten with almost perpetual darkness in winter and never ending light in the summer. In neither case do I believe that the authors are actually under the delusion that the systems they are touting are perfect. This delusion may derive from egotism, or just complete lack of self-awareness. They must face capitalist reality or sink in a slough of socialist delusion, dragging Scotland down with them. The rash of strikes on the railways and elsewhere should quickly disabuse them of that delusion. She deals briskly with the delusion that filling up your diary may give you the feeling that you have life under control. And the delusion is that the only authentic society is made up from noble savages, wresting their comfort and protection from raw nature. Here the delusion of judicial immortality takes its most pathetic form, blind to vanity and vexation of spirit. If they fall into that delusion, they are doomed and no second reprieve will be vouchsafed them. The fashionable City nostrum that you can have a single market without any social dimension is simply delusion. I also suffer from the narcissistic delusion that my hang-ups are so uniquely complex that no therapist could possibly know how to deal with me. She was always under the delusion that Edward was earning an honest living in London, and I never had the heart to tell her the truth. An elderly woman developed the delusion that she was dead and that she was in another place. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. The collapse of idea in Europe may yet be the event that will snap Britain awake from a 30-year delusion. This is one of the first steps he takes towards differentiating between delusion and fact. In short, the evidence points more towards hoaxing and delusion than real discovery. In life, the impulse toward a simple stripping down to some bare truth is either delusion, hubris, or the reductionist's dust. So is the related belief that we can direct behavior via culture, a delusion that comforts worrywarts and flatters creators. Show More Sentences This delusion has deformed British cinema for decades, and largely blinded us to our other identity as Europeans. So many of us live in a life of delusion, of separation, of selfishness and of loneliness. The rest of us play along, but no one is fooled by this necessary delusion. Such a grandiose delusion is common to the consideration of an insanity defense. The level of delusion here eclipses that of the most fanatical of religious zealots. If a lay person of low status presumptuously claimed to have done so, the cause must be delusion, physical illness, or conscious fraud. The hope that irrational people will act rationally is a perpetual delusion of the level-headed. Somehow I developed the delusion that once Ben was in a good daycare, everything would be fine. An arms race is in progress, compounded, as are all arms races, by vanity and delusion. To presume to have all the answers is nothing but dangerous delusion for it is based on the arrogation of divine potency. Parker exposes the vanity, artifice and delusion that stand behind these apparently candid books. So you could easily run away with the delusion that all would be sweetness and light come the launch. Similar attempts to explain lycanthropy as a delusion rooted in illness have been repeated throughout the twentieth century. One is inclined to dismiss all this as product of institutional delusion or bureaucratic make-work. Its dismalness is largely a delusion, due to the fact that its chief ornaments, at least in our own day, are university professors. Content is a lure and a delusion, and it should be banished from the classroom. A woman masquerades as a doctor, but is stalking a male staff member as part of a delusion of erotomania. Accompanying this disdain for people is a self-righteous delusion that they alone are saving the planet with their steady diet of self-denial. A delusion is a fixed belief in something manifestly absurd or untrue, and that can't be overcome by reason. Now again an angel might interpose, between Abraham and his maundering delusion that he must slaughter his second son, Isaac. Show More Sentences Sometimes I'll describe it as an evanescent delusion, sometimes as a centuries-old tradition established with surprising firmness. And yet, he went on to argue mischievously, are we not the victims of a comparably narcissistic delusion? I felt he was so used to being dismissed that he found my compliments false, a trick, a trap, a delusion. But there was an element of delusion, mild trickery even, about this process. This is one of the first steps the wizard takes towards differentiating between delusion and fact. Phantom babies and phantom pregnancies are a common delusion among mentally ill homeless women. To me, this paints a picture of a deeply insecure woman who had long since waved goodbye to the verge of paranoia and blundered into the chasm of abject delusion. The Hannity-esque delusion of a post-racial America is ill-informed at best and bigoted at worst. I suffer from no delusion that the justice system treats black and white equally. Awful though it may be, The Demonologist is a case study in self-willed delusion. To his fellow survivors and to the audience, this delusion indicates another slip on a downward spiral. And like Jodorowsky, Kubrick also had the delusion that some Hollywood studio would back his vision. This is the sort of delusion that sets in when a despot confuses himself with the state after too long in power. The idea of a dictatorial American state disarming its citizens is a paranoid delusion. Or am I just taking part in the old alcoholic self delusion of finding someone worse off than you in order to confirm that you're doing all right yourself. Vampirism is another delusion which has prevailed amazingly. Am I under the delusion that when we lose 10,000 steelworker jobs, that necessarily means 10,000 fewer people working? Or are they gripped by some kind of apocalyptic delusion, some dream of messianism achieved by global destruction? The United Nations is a dim hive of self-interested parties engaged in endless parliamentary mummery, united by a consensual delusion that all nations are equal. What often passes off as extrasensory perception, past-life memories and near-death experiences could well be fantasy, delusion or downright fraud. Show More Sentences A responsible therapist has a duty to help a patient sort out delusion from reality, dreams and confabulations from truth, and real abuse from imagined abuse. An insomniac who hasn't slept for over a year, he finds himself drawn into a crazy world of delusion and paranoia, where conspiracy theories start taking over his life. Mill proposed the insubstantiality of the dreamlike future and also that our feeling for the past may be based upon a cosmic joke, a delusion of the dreaming senses. It's probably a delusion, but landscapes clearly correspond to something in the way the brain works, and art is clearly a response to landscape, and the unities. It should be exposed for what it is, which is dangerous delusion at best. But, to Toulmin, this act of homage proceeded from a delusion. It took me 15 years to realise that it was a tragic, sickly delusion. What is deceit or delusion, and what is genuine in this movement? Most of the political activity occurring outside that gilded realm must be cast as a periphery of delusion, extremism and industrial disputatiousness. Houran's studies indicate that the most deeply obsessed also show signs of erotomania, the delusion of having a love affair with an unattainable or uninterested person. They're firmly locked into delusion, and are doomed to live there forever. Until this fundamental reality is accepted then politicians are all guilty of peddling the delusion of a self-determined future. Both Karen and Malcolm were under the strange delusion that Samoyeds weren't half as fab as the Clumber Spaniel. The hoarse charking conversation which they carried on was calculated to support the delusion. The compensation that proceeds as lateralization opens wide the alternate worlds or self-reflexive interiorities of delusion. Manifestations of delusional disorder on the scalp may be psychogenic pseudoeffluvium, delusion of parasitosis, or trichophobia. But a third cause of the delusion is, that the Church of Rome has become more specious and deceitful than before the Reformation. And that'll protect you from all manner of delusion or overemphasis or underemphasis. The previous king had believed he was made of glass, a delusion no courtier had mistaken for a religious awakening. All pretences to the contrary are nothing but cant and cheat, flam and delusion. Show More Sentences The nonpersonal web of causes and conditions sheds the delusion, or, rather, ceases to give rise to it. When hot-runner systems leak, experience and skilled technique should never be compromised for the delusion of a quick turnaround. Today, it is the United States under presidents of both parties that has embraced the Trotskyite delusion. Louis was under no delusion about the state of his boxing skills, yet he was too embarrassed to quit after the Walcott fight. He is living under the delusion that he is incapable of making mistakes. In Chapters 5 and 6 he discusses, respectively, the Capgras delusion and Cotard delusion, while in Chapter 7, based on the work of Louis Sass, he considers schizophrenia. The processes of interpretation and imagination allow the animals to gain a perspective of the pitiableness of puny man and his great delusion, as evident in their comments. Are we not in fact dicivilizing ourselves as we decivilize them? Why is there no outcry? Is it because we have cast off the delusion of human sanctity? Where persecutIon is delusionally expected, there is a liability for it to be provoked in an attempt to be provoked in an attempt to get away from madness and delusion. Television versions, however, have often taken the third approach of leaving Banquo invisible to viewers, thereby portraying Banquo's ghost as merely Macbeth's delusion. Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement. Examples from Classical Literature And yet, although we know it to be a mere delusion, we all idealise and idolise our childhood. I felt the inexpugnable strength of common sense being insidiously menaced by this gruesome, by this insane, delusion. There is, further, the history of a delusion of death during the onset of the psychosis. Far from opposing the delusion of the multitude, he encouraged it, as did the rabbinate of Venice. One who has just passed is sunning his heart in the delusion that she looked at him. At first I thought it was an optical delusion, or a fairy scene raised by the magic power of ondine, the queen of the waters. Is it a like delusion, that now shows her his assassin in the streets of Natchitoches? It is apparently a popular delusion to speak of the maneless Lion of Guzerat. As usual in such cases, the theosophist believed he was the victim of a delusion. The delusion holding, he, at noon of the thirtieth, ordered a general advance. We knew that Williams, the ignoble designer of tonneaux, laboured under the delusion that he could paint. The crowds delusion of persecution, conspiracy, or oppression is thus a defense mechanism of this nature. He was confined two years, suffering from psychasthenia, with suicidal melancholia and delusion of persecution. The delusion has now vanished, and made room for sober reason and reflection. There was, indeed, a resemblance in their size and persons, which favoured the delusion. I hold Nature for Master in such matters, and the fancy of men for delusion. In the vortex of the eddy the delusion of the vast cone was more pronounced. Many moral philosophers, those of the Kantian school without exception, labour under the delusion of this same, egocentric view. She had a strange delusion that one was avidly interested in ones schoolbooks. He prayed that the doctor was evaluating it as the intricate raving of delusion. Show More Sentences Anders perceived the delusion behind the grayness, and then there was nothing at all. It is the delusion as to what is necessary for a home that hinders so many from establishing one. The Salem delusion began in the house of Mr. Parris, the minister at Danvers. It is plain, then, that phrenologically the head of this Leviathan, in the creature's living intact state, is an entire delusion. This is only an aural delusion, produced by the high vibrations. Have I in my delusion eaten an incarnation of a Bodhisattva? Well, I've never borne him an ounce of malice for his delusion. To the Western man Chicago and Boston are cheek by jowl, and some railroads encourage the delusion. I do not stop to inquire whether we are both the victims of a delusion, or whether we are the chosen recipients of a supernatural communication. John Brooke', and evidently laboring under the delusion that the whole affair had been brought about by his excellent management. When the term is used in defining a fabric, it is a delusion and a snare. When I wrote down, at your biding, all that I had told you by word of mouth, I cannot imagine what delusion possessed me. This wedlock was more serious than most affairs of Merry Mount, where jest and delusion, trick and fantasy, kept up a continual carnival. So after all, my dear Ivor, you must have been the victim of a delusion. Unwatchful trust is a delusion, and untrustful watching is in vain. This is a non sequitur, and a weak fallacy and gross delusion. This is the grossest and wildest delusion, the completest and most signal mistake, that ever human being laboured under, or committed. At the beginning of the interview he would have roughly dispelled her delusion. The transparency and ingenuousness, in a way, of that delusion, the airy tone, the hint of already growing pride, were perfectly delicious. A nihilistic delusion is one which denies existence in whole or part. Show More Sentences It was an ugly story of low passion, delusion, and waking from delusion, which needs not to be dragged from the privacy of Godfrey's bitter memory. But that was mere delusion, as Fatih Terim's men did the exact opposite, losing 3-0 to the Icelanders in Reykjavik, thereby making an already bad situation even worse. The confession of that vanished delusion was left for her to make, as part of the story of the past which she had pledged herself unreservedly to reveal. Of course, he smiled darkly at their delusion, but passed it by with the sad superiority of one who knew that his fidelity like his love was unalterable. If he assisted Sir Percival in sending me to Torquay, he assisted under a delusion, for which, as a foreigner and a stranger, he was not to blame. For a very long period after the witchcraft delusion, however, the Maules had continued to inhabit the town where their progenitor had suffered so unjust a death. You may remember the old Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. I know how very liable we are to delusion in what relates to ourselves, and also how much the judgments of our friends are to be suspected when given in our favor. When Laurie came home, dead tired but quite composed, his grandfather met him as if he knew nothing, and kept up the delusion very successfully for an hour or two. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of delusion? Words that rhyme with delusion What is the plural of delusion? What is the adverb for delusion? What is the adjective for delusion? What is the noun for delusion? Translations for delusion Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words deluges deluged Deluge deluge deluding deludes delusional delusionally delusions delusions of grandeur delusive delusively 8-letter Words Starting With d de del delu delus delusi delusio