It's a self-delusion of a very high order.
This is the self-delusion of a bronze age.
I reckoned without the limitless capacity for self-delusion of British academe.
What is paralysing Europe is the national self-delusion of its intellectual elites.
Hunter's Harrison House, meanwhile, was torn down – and the denials and self-delusion of the old world with it.
What Pence demonstrated is the scale of the denial and self-delusion of those aligned with him.
Most days, a walking affront to the self-delusion of France, he would appear with his yellow dossier underneath his arm.
They also remarked, somewhat conspiratorially, over parallels between the misguided certainties and self-delusion of alchemy and today's political and religious attacks on modern science.
What's even more depressing is the retreat already, even before we've blown it, into self-delusion of too many camp-followers on the Tory side.
Weiner the documentary is a classic study of conceit and self-delusion, of a man with an almost fanatical reluctance to admit that something is wrong.
And Alecky Blythe's 2008 play The Girlfriend Experience employed verbatim techniques to capture the sadness and self-delusion of a group of middle-aged Bournemouth sex workers.
