For all their weakness, cowardice, and self-delusion, these men strike an unexpected, sympathetic chord. |
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These, and other gems of paranoia and self-delusion will no doubt surface over the next month. |
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There is nothing wrong with courtesy but if it is made into an industry or profession it carries the danger of hypocrisy or self-delusion. |
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Take a look at his positions, and marvel at this man, who has never done anything but run for office, and his capacity for self-delusion. |
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His self-delusion is so complete he regards this as a principle, instead of a symptom of his own narcissism. |
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Either way, the net effect is to tilt the playing field further and further towards self-delusion. |
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Enthusiasm and dedication can easily turn to self-delusion and, once scientific rigour is relaxed, error and confusion are almost inevitable. |
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My theory is that many chiefs are victims of self-delusion, their own double-speak. |
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Unfortunately, when these rules are broken there is a real danger that an ingenuous error will evolve from self-delusion to fraud. |
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When anybody calls their bluff and punctures this self-delusion, they can only cope by insulting and vilifying their critics. |
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It would therefore be self-delusion to claim that we have greater democratic legitimacy than the directly elected European Parliament. |
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Campaigns can often be breeding grounds for confidence bordering on self-delusion. |
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Insofar as this is self-delusion rather than outright deceit, he is a Pollyanna. |
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The act of observation itself is an antidote to self-delusion, teaching that things are as they are, and not as we would prefer them to be. |
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We MEPs of the Greek Communist Party abstained from the vote, because we refuse to participate in the self-delusion as to the character of the? |
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In the glow of unearned good repute, people are apt to fall prey to self-delusion, and think that they can get away with anything. |
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The leader of the Group of the Greens said that Europe's claim to be a leader on climate change is self-delusion. |
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Some participants may react to 'hopeful talk' with scorn: they may see it as self-delusion, unrealistic, or lying to oneself. |
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It means knowing and accepting the truth about ourselves, being honest with ourselves, being free of pretension and self-delusion. |
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Further, self-centeredness, self-consciousness, and self-contradiction are not wholly reducible to self-delusion in these narratives. |
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There was a time when I used to shake my head at these acts of self-delusion and time-wasting from the far left. |
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Search engines and advertisers have become complicit in the same self-delusion. |
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Well, you'd either have to be living in a box, congenitally purblind or maintaining yourself in a state of wilful self-delusion not to spot it. |
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But his remarkable combination of grandiosity, self-delusion, and brazen, utter, shameless chutzpah keeps him coming back. |
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Second, people in positions of great authority are, and perhaps must be, capable of enormously high levels of self-delusion. |
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The artist solemnly sends up the studied self-absorption and inherent self-delusion that seem to be characteristics of the masculine gender. |
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We seem to have a genetic capacity for self-delusion, Wright says. |
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To normal, healthy people the prideful self-delusion is obvious. |
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We excel at self-delusion, rationalization and making dumb stuff up. |
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There is no end to the Government's capacity for self-delusion. |
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Negotiations are the heroin of Westerners addicted to self-delusion. |
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At least for readers already inclined towards tolerance, a basis of solid fact should be more helpful than self-delusion. |
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The motion seems to be a form of self-delusion, if not denial. For the specific proposals put forward in the motion as constituting a real plan, they already exist or are being proposed in Canada's economic action plan. |
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It is self-delusion to believe that we are safe from the blast waves, ensconced in our booths and blithely choosing to look the other way. |
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This is just self-delusion that leads no-where. |
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What comes across is Peer's boundless mix of sensuality and self-delusion. |
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One only has to examine poor performance of most NATO members in the fulfilment of the Prague Capability Commitment to realise the extent of the self-delusion. |
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Because we humanitarians have gone far beyond our collective limits to the land of hubris and self-delusion, and we seemingly admit it neither to ourselves, nor to our donors nor to the people we serve. |
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He doesn't so much want to impress as want to succeed by a process of blind self-confidence and a youthful self-delusion that he is acting logically and scientifically. |
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But does this not effectively deny the very nature of action research, which binds indissolubly action and research, and constitute an act of self-delusion about the mere role of observers played by such parties? |
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In the case of the dream for instance the obvious content is considered by Freud to be the work of the self-delusion where the unconscious of the dreamer deceives him by distorting the latent content of the dream. |
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Rather, they live in worlds of enthusiastic self-delusion and megalomania. |
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As ever, the victim of self-delusion is sound planning and any real progress on vital issues such as sufficient strategic enablers and common funding of operations. |
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Like Miller, Wolf suffers from the radical self-delusion that mistakes bonkers political views for uncommonly brave opinion. |
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Attempts at fixing too much at purpose and outputs level inevitably results in a tacit game of collective make-believe and self-delusion where significant detail is specified without justification or credibility. |
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This is yet another attempt to give pseudo-democratic coverage and cultivate self-delusion as to the role of the? U and the European Parliament in the global imperialist system. |
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Administrative measures not accompanied by such a policy give rise to self-delusion and are misleading, which is why we cannot support isolated measures of an administrative nature, as proposed in the resolution. |
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The subject is the idle rich, the problem is idleness, the crisis is self-delusion in the face of fear and despair, and the basic material of the movie is the definition of identity. |
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At another time, in another place, this might have been dismissed as hysteria, nonsense, fraud, self-delusion, or just poltergeisty adolescent hormonal surges. |
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