Sentence examples for * self deception of from inspiring English sources

Thinking about the agony and self deception of Leafs fans, and watching an inferior Senators team hang with one of the most explosive offensive teams of the past decade got me wondering: which Canadian team really has the best chance of ending Canada's twenty year old cup drought the soonest?

But I think I also downplayed them to myself; a bit of self-deception of what I had gotten into.

It is more than just an account of the failures of regulators and the self-deception of bankers and homebuyers, although these are well covered.

We trust Liese's account of the situation, but it comes with the bias and self-deception of any first-person narrative.

Happily, with her new novel, "The Season of Lillian Dawes," Mosby demonstrates a broader sensibility and a firmer grasp of the absurdity and self-deception of her characters.

What's fascinating about the story, as told in both the Netflix and Hulu shows, is how deeply McFarland tapped into the self-deception of his targets, and how the companies that enabled him continue to thrive.

The self-deception of those who blame others for failure or wrongdoing of their own making ("Cast Blame. Watch It Boomerang," Nov. 26) calls to mind a speech by Edmund in King Lear.

"The Democratic Party of Serbia is no longer ready to take part in the self-deception of the government, as well as the misleading of the people," the statement said.

There is a long tradition of finding spiritual renewal in the lower altitudes; underground spots are safe, sheltered both from outside attack and from the self-deception of success.

Read that book, and shiver at its lies, its emptiness, its triviality; shudder at the hollow cores of the world's most ambitious men and the self-deception of the fools who follow them.

If the expansion of creative writing courses signifies anything, it isn't the cynicism of universities or the self-deception of would-be students: it means, simply, that our manner of life is dishonest, that it offers too few opportunities for self-expression, and that, for some people, there is too great a disjuncture between how things seem and how they actually feel.