Sentence examples for a delusive from inspiring English sources

Today, that period looks like a delusive blip.

I had the beginnings of a word,... maybe miles away, maybe too far for customary use, and it would remain, a delusive harbinger of night, a word unborn, doomed to remain unsaid as humm — or thal — unable to complete itself because of my aphasic ineptitude".

Through the refractive medium of an exceptionally misleading narration, however, we glimpse a much bleaker world in which moral choice is hard, in which there are no consolations, and in which Romantic paraphernalia whether speculative science, artistic medievalism, or landscape gardening is a delusive distraction.

In her brilliant essay "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" George Eliot wrote, "the severer critics are fulfilling a chivalrous duty in depriving the mere fact of feminine authorship of any false prestige which may give it a delusive attraction, and in recommending women of mediocre faculties — as at least a negative service they can render their sex — to abstain from writing".

Healing from food addiction and a delusive body image feels like I've walked away from a brainwashing captor that has kept me locked inside his home since I was twelve.

How neat she spreads the wax!", Dickinson's poem, "The Bumble-Bee's Religion" (1881) begins "His little Hearse-like Figure / Unto itself a Dirge / To a delusive Lilac / The vanity divulge / Of Industry and Morals / And every righteous thing / For the divine Perdition / of Idleness and Spring".

Moore also scowled at what he saw as Jefferson's proto-evolutionary ideas about the relationship between humans and apes: "This view of nature, in which man is found so nearly to resemble, in his corporeal properties, the animals below him, offers a very delusive spectacle".

Moreover, today's nursing home patients belong to a generation that is trained to do what the medical staff recommends, i.e. the principle of autonomy may be a bit delusive.

For however wonderful it can feel to be in love, this most central of human emotions can also be, as Shaw wrote, an "insane" and "delusive" passion and a dangerous one as well.

Begin, Descartes wrote, by doubting absolutely everything you know, think, and perceive; assume that it is all delusive, as in a dream.

"History offered a feeble and delusive smile at the sound of the word race," Henry Adams wrote back in 1918.