How To Use Elusion In A Sentence

She regarded him as a somewhat crazy and delusional man, no matter how good he looked.
But there was an element of delusion, mild trickery even, about this process.
On two consecutive nights of Hardball, Chris Matthews brought up this same trio as examples of Gore's "delusionary" thinking. Going After Gore
After light's term, a term of cecity: the best hope for the future, that light will return and banish the follies, sophistries, delusions, which have accumulated in the darkness. Matthew Arnold
Is this for real, or just a delusion on my part?

He remains an eloquent and witty portrait of self-delusion.
It is my conviction , or my delusion , that crime brings its own fatality with it.
In some non-Western cultures, schizophrenic delusions single out the person as spiritually gifted.
The study cites evidence that such isolation can produce “the most extreme forms of psychopathology, such as depersonalization, hallucination, and delusions.” Primary Sources
She wants to travel first - class: she must have delusions of grandeur.
This atrocity exposes the wilful self-delusion of western liberals who want to believe that humanity is essentially good
Frustrated by his lack of social acceptance he retreats into a world of fantasy and self-delusion ... with tragic results.
It takes a special kind of mindset to be this delusional in the face of cold, hard facts.
So this exercise in tilting at windmills can't even be described as quixotic, since that would imply some expectation of success, however delusional. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
In such a case, the only women who will interfere and warn the intended victim will be his own relatives – a mother or a sister; others, while under no delusions as to the interested nature of the motives by which the pursuer is actuated, will hold their tongues, and even go so far as to offer facilities for the chase. Marriage as a Trade
Coming down the hill, out of the town, the delusion is that this great fresh-water lake is but itself a bay, the mouth of which is concealed from view, but not so, for its waters run clear and fresh, and as fishful as the Erne. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
If Gordon Brown's comments weren't so delusional and misleading it'd be funny. Is Gordon Brown a hypocrite?
Unfortunately, when these rules are broken there is a real danger that an ingenuous error will evolve from self-delusion to fraud.
Here is the verbatim definition of schizophrenia from the Random House online dictionary - the medical definition: "a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations. Conservative: Dems looking 'schizophrenic' on reform
Eugenia too, soothed with the delusions of her romantic but innocent fancy, flattered herself she might now see continually the object she conceived formed for meriting her ever reverential regard; and Miss Margland was importantly occupied upon affairs best suited to her taste and ancient habits, in deliberating how first to bring forth her fair charge with the most brilliant effect. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
Neither, which is most important of all, has this Peace been attained by a surrender to Necessity, or any compact with Delusion; a seeming blessing, such as years and dispiritment will of themselves bring to most men, and which is indeed no blessing, since even continued battle is better than destruction or captivity; and peace of this sort is like that of Galgacus's Romans, who 'called it peace when they had made a desert.' Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
It took searing depression to break the self-delusion in the 1930s. The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton
Sorry, but pretending that any American auto manufacturer is healthy is delusional, stupid and ridiculous. Think Progress » Arizona legislature demands immigrants and President of the United States verify their status.
None of this is simply false: ideology is not a set of delusions foisted upon the stupid.
Burstyn's pills lead her to delusion and madness; Leto's arm festers with an infected sore from too many needles.
But Boyko disagreed, saying that anybody who thinks there is broad support for such a proposal is ‘delusional.’
The usual delusions of adequacy from the pro-bush crowd. Think Progress » Legal Advocate For Torture Being Considered For Top Judicial Post
Sometimes I'll describe it as an evanescent delusion, sometimes as a centuries-old tradition established with surprising firmness.
Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that can cause, among other things, visual and auditory hallucinations, delusions and distorted thinking.
If this is not what you may call incompetency, either you are high on something or by nature, delusional.. NY Daily News
Also know as erotomania, De Clérambault's syndrome is one in which a delusional belief is held by a patient that another person, usually older and of higher social status, famous, wealthy or in a professional relationship with the patient is deeply in love with them. Mental Nurse
Real discoveries of phenomena contrary to all previous scientific experience are very rare, while fraud, fakery, foolishness, and error resulting from overenthusiasm and delusion are all too common.
Your hopes of promotion are a mere delusion.
Yet again she told herself that she was submerged in self-delusion, the daughter was no more than an image in a dream. THE TOUCH OF INNOCENTS
There is acute onset of delusions, hallucinations, incomprehensible or incoherent speech, or any combination of these.
The barren delusion called 'managerialism' may soon be defunct. Times, Sunday Times
The hope that irrational people will act rationally is a perpetual delusion of the level-headed.
So his dogged belief in his ability as a salesman doesn't come off as gumption and moxie, instead he comes off as delusional.
She has turned it into an increasingly ludicrous set of insinuations, non sequiturs and delusions.
The term delusional disorder was suggested by Winokur 1072 to avoid the confusion resulting from the diverse concepts of paranoia and the ambiguity of that term, which has been used to denote insanity, suspiciousness, persecutory or grandiose delusions, schizophrenia, and a specific disease entity distinct from other psychoses. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
Even if he is a delusional, the fact is he might still be accessing accurate information paranormally.
But self-delusion is the quintessential attribute of all dictators. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan Unbound!
All midwinter nights and saturnalian chaos, a schizoid descent into dreams and delusions. Archive 2004-09-01
Yet somehow he forgot all the truths of his younger days and bought into the self-delusions spawned from his megalomania.
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.
What if everything that I learnt from my guides was just the delusions of a misguided egotistical fool?
It was a stunning enantiodromia the likes of which I couldn't have fantasized in my most wine-fueled delusions. Rex Pickett: The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part III: Whiplash; Dismay!
Yes, many ICC supporters claimed that opposition in the Senate (or ASPA) were paranoid delusions and that the ICC had zero intent of ever opening an investigation into the acts of the United States government or otherwise impinging on our right to make foreign policy. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Garzon and the Trouble with International Law”
I think I mentioned somewhere that delusions are visions of realities not yet activated.
When anybody calls their bluff and punctures this self-delusion, they can only cope by insulting and vilifying their critics.
This led to the de-institutionalization of national facilities and the prelusion of community-based care centers that were thought to provide a more flexible delivery system. America's Homeless Vets, a Causality of Epidemic Proportions
The rash of strikes on the railways and elsewhere should quickly disabuse them of that delusion.
The hysterical over-the-top delusionary nature of these convictions of yours are only a couple of the many reasons your body of work here has led pretty much everybody to immediately dismiss your posts and to simply treat you as the ridiculous clown that you so obviously are. Think Progress » The ‘Kristol Ball’ predicts that ‘the bulk’ of health care reform will be repealed by 2013.
That was nearly thirty years ago, and over the years the delusion that an unlimited license to commit an unspeakable evil can be disguised or excused by a display of moral handwringing has become ever less convincing to ever more Americans.
They're too tongue-in-cheek, too savvy and intelligent to be discounted as amateurs, yet sophomoric enough to not buckle to pretentiousness and delusions of grandeur.
He is under the delusion that I am going to cheat him.
So many of us live in a life of delusion, of separation, of selfishness and of loneliness.
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.
Impressed with this convergency of testimony from so many different quarters, they will be utterly at a loss to account for the unanimity of these early witnesses -- all sharing in the same delusion, all ignorant that a false Mark has been silently substituted for the true Mark during their own lifetime, and consequently assuming as an indisputable fact that the false Mark was received by the Church from the beginning. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
What if I am sleeping? what if this life is a lie just a big elusion? Lupee Diary Entry
If the disability is psychologically based diagnostic systems based on the use of multiple and unvalidated skin tests may reinforce the delusion.
The killer, Yigal Amir, a student of Jewish law, was an activist of the organized religious right. He was neither delusional nor incoherent.
Indeed, the worthy citizens are under some such delusion themselves, and boast of immunities, and liberalities of government, such as would place them at the head of the A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
Even if social analysis is something which everyone does, those who engage in it professionally are still tempted by delusions of grandeur.
If the disability is psychologically based diagnostic systems based on the use of multiple and unvalidated skin tests may reinforce the delusion.
Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason, or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry, may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. Preface to Shakespeare
As he tells it in Nervous System, things spiralled out of control and eventually, after a suicide attempt, Jensen found himself in a psych ward, as much absorbed in his delusions as the new life unfolding around him.
At times, Coughlin has exhibited what might be interpreted as delusions of grandeur.
Carr is a hero in the UFO literature, but his stories of flying saucers and alien creatures were all delusions.
On every page there are unhappy husbands, bewildered boyfriends, disappointed lovers and delusional relatives.
LSD intoxication is characterized by florid visual distortions—arrays of colors, often dark green or brown; dramatic changes in the shapes or sizes of familiar objects—and overwhelming delusions of omnipotence. Over the Edge
But most of the responses had been triggered by greed, some sort of fantasy delusion, whimsy, or malice. THE WAILING WIND
Alan's foremost delusion was that he himself was a gent.
Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that can cause, among other things, visual and auditory hallucinations, delusions and distorted thinking.
It's a delusion amounting to dementedness to suppose, that with the people inside our defences, we can be taming them and tricking them. Beauchamp's Career — Complete
The "mild" cases showed a group of symptoms which might be termed contra-environmental, viz. allopsychic delusions, sicchasia (refusal of food), resistiveness, violence, destructiveness. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
We excel at self-delusion, rationalization and making dumb stuff up.
In the acute excitement stages, when delusions of grandeur, loquacity and hyperactivity prevail, the patients require physical restraint.
It has much to do with the lottery of life and its unforgiving nature - about fate, synchronicity, and whether what was, was supposed to be; of hopes realized and dashed, and possibly about self-delusion and being generally perplexed.
It is powerful, but it is deluded and self-delusion runs deep in the US. The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression | Will Hutton
In addition to that I think that the ending is less then definite, taking into account the predominant viewpoint of the film and the combinative delusional and Oedipal connotations of the film.
Fenton dismissed this talk of Judgement Day as mental illness and prayed that his father was having a brief delusional episode.
Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us.
Dengle, the world that you inhabit is only a delusion, a fiction, a lie, and it will not endure. Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives
Many sensed the species ' possibilities within themselves, and whether this was delusion or revelation was impossible to tell. THE BROKEN GOD
Marijuana also accounts for many mental disorders, including panic attacks, flashbacks, delusions, depersonalisation, depression and uncontrollable hostility.
[D] elusion is a matter of top-down disturbance in some fundamental beliefs of the subject, which may consequently affect experiences and actions (Campbell 2001, p. 89). Delusion
Organized religion is a product of a mix of superstition, delusion, divination and humanity to calm and control the human mind. Dr T.P.Chia
And finally, at long last, the vile-faced truth troll tore through the remaining skein of my own pitiful self-delusions. THE CALLIGRAPHER
The problem is called, she later discovered, delusional parasitosis. Times, Sunday Times
She is a cold, remote, autocratic figurehead with monarchical delusions and the instincts of a contract killer.
Happiness which is obtained with ‘delusion from beginning to end’ and that arises from laziness and fantasy is achieved in the mode of tamas or ignorance.
Only winning lets you tell the truth - every shade of mediocrity, of unsuccess, of half-success, involves you in little explanations, regrets, resentments, complaints, delusions.
The actors took a short while to fully get into the difficult dialogue, but by the end, the confessions, revelations and delusions were brilliantly spelt out.
Just perturbance at another worthless uttering from a delusional campaign apparently meriting yet another "camp hillary says ..." post. Harold Ickes: Hillary Will Need "A Few" More Super-Dels Than Obama To Catch Him
We seem to have a genetic capacity for self-delusion, Wright says.
Forus not to dothis would only endorse the proposition that the American electorate is intellectually obtuse and morallyderelict and we surround ourselves in a steel fortressof delusion and denial andany awareness of the grossest atrocities committed by leaders we choose. We Must Raise Our Voices for Our Country's Redemption
The medication can reduce the concomitant anxiety and agitation, but does little to stop the underlying delusions.
Reagan famously maintained the self-delusion of his starless and bible-black follicles up till the age of 80 despite the fact that even America's entire population of three-year old immature cucumbers and most conservatives knew that Reagan's hair was actually as gray as a charcoal sketch of Al Gore. Martin Lewis: See Bin Laden Dye! (Not For The Sensitive)
Thus, a person who systematically fails to recognize her image in the mirror and comes to think that there is a person identical to her following her around (as in mirrored-self misidentification), but has no other unusual beliefs, has a monothematic delusion. Delusion
All but Brendan, the youngish owner and barkeep, have tales to spin: tales of the supernatural in which they were involved but that may be merely delusional.
But if nothing else, it is good that you post your delusions and warmed over crap from the wingnut side of the political spectrum -- if at least you were able to keep current with the attacks you would spare us having to read about them directly, but the best you seem to be able to do is re-serve two week old Rovian talking point -- hardly seems worth the effort, does it? Top Republican Begged GOPers To Run For Senate -- For America's Sake
The soi-disant "antifascist" Western elites have veered so far into a delusional dreamscape that they themselves have become enablers of open Socialist fascism acting as a pathfinder for its Islamic kin. The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
Now again an angel might interpose, between Abraham and his maundering delusion that he must slaughter his second son, Isaac.
In your delusional mind the world waits with bated breath for your next revelation and tweet. Palin: 'My heart goes out to Huckabee'
Maybe the only way you could even imagine tackling your Grand Enterprise was with a confidence bordering on messianic delusion counterweighted by a criticality that damned it as the utmost folly — in short, with a psyche strung tighter than the tension between God and Lucifer if they met in a Harold Pinter play. Archive 2009-05-01
You are nuts! Perhaps schizophrenic, certainly delusionary just to think your fellow citizens would approve of a return to such violence and chaos as putting evangelical madmen like Fred Phelps in charge of anything at all. Are we a Christian Nation?
The condition is rare and has various aetiologies; it can surface in association with schizophrenia or affective disorders, or on its own as a single delusional disorder. Mental Nurse
The delusion of separateness has engendered not only suicide, homicide, and genocide, but has pushed us to the brink of biocide, the destruction of the earths life support systems themselves.
Nah, more like a mix of datura and PCP; flat barking delusional, our Loo Tenant (Residentista de Crapper). Think Progress » Mark Krikorian: ‘Haiti’s So Screwed Up Because It Wasn’t Colonized Long Enough’
I was under the delusion that he intended to marry me.
I was one of the honest supporters of Sen. Hillary, before I witnessed her on the podium when start elusion the sniper and other stories knowingly she is lying on the face of American people on live TV more than couple times. Obama, campaign both say he's not ready to declare victory
Your hopes of promotion are a mere delusion.
We now know that the duty of the lexicographer is to record and not to criticize, that refined speech and elegant speech are the delusions of a mistaken optimism, and that the only people who now speak English with any approach to historical correctness are the few surviving agricultural laborers who are old enough to have escaped the devastating effects of the Elementary Education Act. Johnson's Dictionary went far to accomplish, in the eighteenth century, what the Italian and French Academies had unsuccessfully attempted in the seventeenth. On Dictionaries
My wife very hystericky and forever in a smock and declareth she would be dead and married life a delusion, the which opinion I take small issue with having my hands full of business and Lasselle forever at my heels with our affair of the mine not to speak of H. Nevil which waileth continually over how he was caught short in the month of June. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous delusion.
In the case of schizophrenics, delusions can arise through misinterpreting other people's actions, misreading other people's minds.
Clearly this ‘clan’ resides in the same delusional fairyland that Hambo is known to occupy on occasion.
But most of the responses had been triggered by greed, some sort of fantasy delusion, whimsy, or malice. THE WAILING WIND
On this basis there develop conditions of pseudologia-phantastica, systematized delusional formations of all sorts, delirious psychoses, etc. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
Delusions, however, are not pathognomonic of schizophrenia and occur with equal frequency in patients with affective disorder and coarse brain disease 13; 159; 555, pp. 18-22, pp. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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.
Only from the standpoint of its dishonest and delusional character did the speech provide an indication of the real state of American society.
Your opinion of my complacency and being delusional is your suggestion or is it another runoff the mill copout that you have no suggestion accept to say something for the sake of saying nothing. Page 3
Where too much imagination, accompanied by a loss of reality function, leads to delusions or hallucinations, anti-psychotic or other psychopharmacologic agents are used to suppress the image-making -- usually at the expense of a normal amount of this desirable functioning, which includes dreaming, day-dreaming, creating and inventing. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3
Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been 'relocated' to another site. Mind Hacks: August 2005 Archives
In other words, this was another sensational example of what sociologists call collective delusions.
It's self-delusion if he thinks he'll be offered a better contract.
Brown, who was under no delusion as to his share in the venture, scoffed openly at the idea of finding anything buried, in a land where every living "crittur," as he put it, was a thief from birth. The Ivory Trail
Charles Mackay, in his 1841 classic, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, explained that dissatisfaction with one's lot in life, far from leading to evil, has been the "great civilizer of our race. Leapfrogging: How Civilizations Progress And Make Smart Decisions
If the government thinks it can take us back to an era of managed news by self-interested politicians, then it is even more delusional than we thought.
Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place exists in two or more locations simultaneously and has been the inspiration for the project where we will try and get participants to hold contrasting and contradictory memories of a past location in mind, while experiencing movement through a current space. Mind Hacks: Gallery Space Recall
‘You have to excuse my room mate, she is a little delusional it looks like,’ I heard Penelope plead.
She admitted, that when she heard the poor petitioner turn from the door, her heart was softened, and she did intend to open with the purpose of offering her at least a shelter; but that before she could "hirple to the door, and get the bar taken down," the unfortunate supplicant was not to be seen; which strengthened the old woman's opinion, that the whole was a delusion of Satan. St. Ronan's Well
Working on this delusion, they then feel either excited and act like silly children or confused and act like silly children.
I am an authority on the self-delusion of addiction.
But it's only at the end of the film that we learn what appears to have really happened: it is he himself who killed his mother, gassing her whilst apparently suffering from a delusion that she is another person.
Rarely, patients excoriate their skin in response to delusional ideation; in such cases, the appropriate diagnosis would be psychosis.
The most commonly reported psychotic features are auditory hallucinations and delusions.
Organized religion is a product of a mix of superstition, delusion, divination and humanity to calm and control the human mind. Dr T.P.Chia
Affected by delusions, he had undertaken the action of an idealist without any notion of the consequences.
A dhole pack with delusions of grandeur fails to take Mowgli and his wolves into account. Archive 2007-04-01
She has some cockeyed delusions about becoming a pop star.
Other examples of monothematic delusions often referred to in the philosophical literature are Capgras and Cotard. Delusion
‘If he has,’ said I, ‘he has done it unwittingly; I never heard before that he was a favourer of the popish delusion.’ Lavengro
Fact is, as this tricky little self-delusional phrase indicates, corporately we're not budging an inch, and never will until we're all dead of profit.
I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous delusion.
Auntie's piety was not of the niggerish kind, even Zoe, "The Octoroon," or any other woman or man in whose veins courses the blood of Ham four times diluted, knows that I mean it was not that glory-hallelujah variety of cunning or delusion, compounded of laziness and catalepsy, which is popular among the shouting, shirt-tearing sects of plantation darkies, who "git relijin" and fits twelve times a year. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
She is clearly suffering from delusions of grandeur .
We whistle, skipping to the car in a delusional, potentially ridiculous flitter.
The happiness-of-the-greatest-number, of those who pasture on delusions: what dreamer is responsible for this eunuchry? Alone
He has grandiose delusions and does not want to stay in hospital.
I thought the whole idea was just a foolish and dangerous delusion.
It is neither polite nor politically correct: but it's a sure antidote to multicultural delusions.
And if we occasionally want to uncouple our mental state from our actual situation in the world (e.g. by taking powerful drugs, drinking great quantities of alcohol, etc.) we don't want this to render us permanently delusional, however pleasant such delusion might be. Sam Harris: Toward a Science of Morality
The delusional woman received a variety of diagnoses and was subjected to varying pharmacological regimens.
Self delusion and groupthink are, I think, a little tricky to parameterise. ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
They labored under the delusion that positive reasoning could carry conviction to a people immersed in mystical speculation, crushed by the double yoke of ceremonialism and an inferior social position, and sustained only by the The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)
She was one of five children, and even in this sketchy history of her fragmented life, with its breakdowns, delusions and stays in hospital, we can see echoes of the privilege to which she was born.
And wisdom usually follows illusion, delusion, and disillusion.
Doctors, according to the article, claim that Morgellons is actually a form of DP - delusional parasitosis.
The concept that destiny is predetermined is a religious dogma and a philosophical delusion. Dr T.P.Chia
Cro-Magnon cult culture defense mechanism delusion demography developmental psychology double standard of sexual behavior dowry ectomorph, endomorph, and mesomorph ego egocentric egomania egotism empathy empty nest encounter group 17. Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
So like most people confronted with paranoid delusions, they react inappropriately: with my gran, they tend to laugh and make a joke of it.
And yet, he went on to argue mischievously, are we not the victims of a comparably narcissistic delusion?
The myth of coequality protects our delusional democracy and makes a mockery of our constitutional republic. Constitutional Rubbish
Strenger interprets the quest for various forms of celebrity as a worldwide escapist flight from human finitude and the tragic dimension of human existence into mindless, inauthentic delusions of omnipotence. Robert D. Stolorow: Review of The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-first Century by Carlo Strenger
In life, the impulse toward a simple stripping down to some bare truth is either delusion, hubris, or the reductionist's dust.
There are three possible sources of finance for a garden to match my delusions of grandeur.
You look at life for women today, it is the very definition of personal fantasy, of self-delusion, and of a narcissism so acute that to read through your average issue of a glamorous women's magazine is not that different from reading a porn magin fact, there are more adoring/self-hating naked female images in the women's mag. A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty
Some would say she's got no chance - and that exercises in self-delusion like this article are one of the key reasons why.
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.
But if rage or desire implied freedom we must allow freedom to animals, infants, maniacs, the distraught, the victims of malpractice producing incontrollable delusions. The Six Enneads.
The delusional belief that his solidary architectonic can be studied in isolation by decoupling it from the fundament as well as the transcendent is nothing but intransigent vanity. Deleuze’s solidary architectonic can't be studied in isolation by decoupling it from the fundament
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.
The delusion gave a new impulse to his ardour; and no professor of the saltant art ever applied himself with greater industry, than the naturalist now used his heels on the ribs of Asinus. The Prairie
I don't know if anger influences what I do - I think it is too buried beneath my layers of detachment and self-delusion.
Frustrated by his lack of social acceptance he retreats into a world of fantasy and self-delusion ... with tragic results.
Hellboy does the usual demonizing of the Nazi party that we have all grown accustomed to, but the Nazi "reality" perhaps "delusion" might be a better term marred the literal demonizing of the Nazis. Hitler and Hell
A garland of betony worn at night was a specific against phantasma or delusions and a head poultice of crushed teasel a spiky plant with hooked spines would relieve the symptoms of the frenzy.20 Another popular belief was that a rosted Mous, eaten, doth heale Franticke persons.21 Bedlam
He won the general in a landslide because he ran in a safely Republican district against a delusional Democrat with no campaign.
Three days later, he began to experience hallucinations, delusions, anxiety, and agitation along with dizziness and nausea.
This delusion has deformed British cinema for decades, and largely blinded us to our other identity as Europeans.
What the media see as progressive self-delusion is actually the opposite: a bare-knuckled pragmatism born from the debacle of the 2000 elections.
Their opinions are often hypercritical before they become paranoid and delusional. Times, Sunday Times
Psychotic patients may have paranoid delusions about their food, leading to reduced intake.
As for vitamins, I am convinced that it is one big ploy and most vitamins are pricey placeboes looking meely to create some delusion of health. Smog sunsets are the prettiest
I talked with Lotte concerning the incredible delusion of the human mind.
Of possession as the delusion we all run aground on.
‘I'm a hillbilly singer with delusions of grandeur,’ Earle says, with a guffaw.
Maybe he worries that outsiders might think that the campus is filled with ignorant or delusional people.
Schizophrenia, a biological disorder of the brain, is characterised by delusions, hallucinations and thought disorders.
This is one of the first steps he takes towards differentiating between delusion and fact.
Dusty: Early 20's. The "everyman" type of character. A farm boy with many innocent delusions about war. We follow his progress from raw recruit to cynical veteran.
These, and other gems of paranoia and self-delusion will no doubt surface over the next month.
Being a psychologist, he'd studied the pathology of delusional behaviour.
We need to understand that they know who they are, and are clear about their interests and in that clear tough-minded way that we need to sit down and make it clear that we're not going the base relationships on delusions and wishful thinking.
She's just traded identities -- and everything else she does -- _everything_ else -- stems logically out of her delusional premise. Brain Twister
It's a mental disease that infects people with the egocentric and ethnocentric delusion that they are superior, and they justify themselves by taking isolated words and phrases from thier relligious scriptures, whether they be in the Torah or Tanach or Bible or Qur'an. Religious Fundamentalism in Israel
Carville's claim that IN could be the "tie breaker" is just plain delusionary. Poll shows dead heat in Indiana

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