Sentence examples similar to a pervasive delusion from inspiring English sources

The court previously has ruled that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment means those who suffer from pervasive delusions associated with schizophrenia and psychosis may not be put to death.

When people with schizophrenia are suffering extreme and pervasive delusions, they do not understand what they are doing.

[ 40- A pervasive feeling of distress] Distressing symptoms reported included hallucinations and delusions (particularly hearing voices, thought disturbances and paranoia) [ 26, 28, 30], reality disorientation [ 28], mania, and hypomania [ 38], feelings of discomfort, weirdness or oddness [ 28], and irritability or agitation [ 30].

Of course, it is the authors' contention that Las Vegas itself is emblematic of something larger: what they call in this tendentious and often hysterical book "a pervasive and swelling American corruption," the "glorification of mass taste and tastelessness, aspiration, delusion, despair, a glossy if coarse mercenary despotism".

"It is a pervasive thing".

"This is such a pervasive problem.

There was a pervasive sense of defeat.

This is a pervasive dilemma.

This is a pervasive problem.

Sexual abuse is a pervasive problem.

It is a pervasive, pernicious lie.