Sentence examples for a delusion from which from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a delusion from which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a false belief or perception that someone is unable to escape or recognize as untrue.
Example: "He was trapped in a delusion from which he could not awaken, believing that he was destined for greatness despite all evidence to the contrary."
Alternatives: "a misconception from which" or "an illusion from which".

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Lowell had high hopes for his performance but was overshadowed by the other notables presenting works that day, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "I did not make the hit I expected," he wrote, "and am ashamed at having been tempted again to think I could write poetry, a delusion from which I have been tolerably free these dozen years".

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Cage's Troy is a solipsistic parody of old-movie suave and cool that suggests a debt of delusion from which reality ultimately collects many times over.

So think of it this way: at the end of the first issue of "The Sandman," the newly freed Morpheus curses his human captor with an affliction called eternal waking: every time he thinks he is rousing from a dream, he has simply woken up in a new and different delusion from which he must again wake up, and so on, into infinity.

The narrative is focused on Hegel, who understood better than anyone else how all our truths incorporate the errors and delusions from which they emerged.

Of course, this pictorial "service" feeds fantasies and delusions, is a default tool for narcissists, and offers its users a platform from which to deliver more or less bogus simulations of themselves, not least to themselves – delusion is conditional on self-delusion.

His vanity and his delusions of being an international statesman have taken a knock from which they'll never recover.

Michael suffers, you gradually decipher, from a delusion called Fregoli, in which the sufferer thinks believe everyone is the same person.

I did not even acquire a delusion of an improvement, which would have been nice.

Try Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which has worked well for a number of people suffering from delusions which have to do with ideas and words.

Lord Elystan-Morgan quoted approvingly from The God Delusion, in which Dawkins describes the Christian God as "a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully".

Also read from The God Delusion book which explains many things related to this topic.

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