Sentence examples for Delusion from inspiring English sources
The word "Delusion" is correct in written English
It is used to describe a false belief or judgment that is held despite evidence to the contrary. Example: "His delusion that he could win the race without training was evident to everyone."
noun
A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
He scored against Germany in an 8-3 whichwhich proved a snare and a delusion.
"That the sun moves round the Earth was once a delusion, and is still an illusion" (Fowler) DeMille, Cecil B (1881-1959) Hollywood producer and director; the B stood for Blount Democrat, Democratic In American politics, Democrat is a noun, Democratic an adjective: Hillary Clinton is a Democrat, and a member of the Democratic party.
You know, the guy who reckons climate change is a "scientific delusion"… hang on, who is that behind your modest-sized bookcase?
It will be destroyed by the inevitable disappointments of life, which overwhelm the delusion every generation has that theirs is special.
Mention marriage, and this party vanishes away to the wilder shores of delusion.
He said it was a "delusion" to think that changing the way the BBC was run would solve its problems.
Tony McNulty, a Home Office minister, dismissed Davis's campaign as a "complete circus, tinged with vanity with a bit of self-delusion" and hinted that the true motive lay in shadow cabinet divisions which had yet to be unearthed.
Confirmation of her self-delusion came soon enough.
Every bit of family fun in that book is portrayed as self-delusion even before the tragedy.
In science, though, self-delusion is still in charge.
It is a measure of the enduring impact of the miners' sacrifice and the potential power of radical trade unionism that, a generation after the event, it is still felt necessary to paint the strike as a dismal morality tale and its leadership as the epitome of vain self-delusion.
