Sentence examples similar to a self deception from inspiring English sources

The belief that homosexuality is a corruption found only in cultures other than one's own is a self-deception with an ancient pedigree.

He thought her attempt to enjoy a life for which she was so obviously unfitted a self-deception, a reproach to himself.

That people who think of themselves as left wing can brush it aside and pretend that working and middle-class Scots won't suffer is a self-deception so extreme it borders on religious fantasy.

The plant is a stand-in for anyone who continues to live a self-deception.

Americans will debate for some time whether Obama's attentiveness to the issue of respect is a successful aspect of foreign policy realism or a self-deception arising from geopolitical naiveté.

Using defensiveness, victimization, anger, intellectualizing or outrage as means to promote your point of view while ignoring all others is a form of self deception.

Self deception is a bit of a paradox: I am at once the deceiver and the deceived.

The first is that the flip side of Blair's magical persuasive abilities is, and always has been, an extraordinary capacity for self deception.

Author Atara Stein wrote that the song "suggests that love can operate only through a willful self-deception, a voluntary surrender to what one knows is an illusion.

For one thing, a little self-deception helps ward off existential despair.

True, good maple syrup can add a pleasing burned, crème caramel dimension to pancakes and if you must have fruit on there (what a "healthy" self-deception that is), blueberries are fine.