Sentence examples for We were deluded from inspiring English sources

"I'll be frank and say that we were deluded when we signed the contract," Maliki told the British broadcaster in his first interview with an international news organization since the insurgents seized Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city,  this month.

That we were deluding ourselves a bit.

It is now clear that we were deluding ourselves.

My view is that we're deluded if we think new technologies come into existence because of clearly defined human objectives – let alone benevolent ones – and it's this that should shape our response to them.

"We are deluded by the attention paid to the large contributors in our country," said Wendy Smith, author of "Give A Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform the World".

According to the second, the source of the unacceptability of the conclusion is the fact that we are deluded by our intuition (Sikora 1978, 2004; Mackie 1985; Tännsjö 1992 , 1998 2002; Hare 1993; Ryberg 1996a, 2004).

Validation from outside is an invaluable check on whether we are deluded or spot on.

Climate change is real, and now, and urgent, and we all know it (unless we are deluded enough to believe that random acts of God are behind the weather upheavals of the last years).

In Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley writes "Nature at the middle distance is familiar— so familiar that we are deluded into believing that we really know what it is all about.

But we're deluding ourselves if we believe the solution is largely academic.

"I think the situation is one where we are deluding ourselves," he said.