Sentence examples for Delusional hope from inspiring English sources
Saunders specialises in giving losers - the ugly, the weak, the self-absorbed - a flicker of appeal or delusional hope.
It returns to the couple of Don't You Want Me, and we find that Oakey's frustration has dissolved into a delusional hope of reconciliation with Sulley's character.
When his (apparently delusional) hope of becoming a football player fizzled out, along with his intention to become a university graduate, he managed to find a well-paid position at his father's successful label company.
A group of deserters, starving and staggering across country in the entirely delusional hope of an "alehouse" over the next hill, fall under the sinister control of O'Neil, a necromancer and practitioner of the forbidden arts, played by Michael Smiley.
His life, in relation to the mouse, is one long failure, a monotonous succession of unspeakable humiliations; his unhappiness is relieved only by moments of delusional hope, during which he believes, despite doubts supported by a lifetime of bitter experience, that at last he will succeed.
Unfortunately, it's a strategy that has been abandoned in the face of phantom risks and delusional hopes.
A cheer went up, and I suddenly felt my own burst of delusional love, hoping against hope that, unlike the rest of us, Harry would never, ever, ever die.
In the 19th century, Captain John Cleves Symmes tried to drum up support for an expedition to the north pole where this delightfully delusional American hoped to find a hole leading inside the Earth.
She was delusional enough to hope, once she went to England and took up with the future king, that her own family history "would stand up against these 1066" — as in William the Conqueror — "families here".
