Sentence examples for an delusional from inspiring English sources

When the presence of the different Other is perceived and experienced as a menace, then a group, a community, a society or a state project their weakness and their insecurities through a tough rhetoric of zero-tolerance; insecurity masked by an delusional firmness.

McEwan's libretto felt like an arch agglomeration of favored motifs: a delusional admirer, a narcissistic artist, a terrible misunderstanding.

Oswald was a troubled child, a library Marxist, a wife beater and a delusional paranoiac.

He was likely to have suffered a delusional disorder, a mental illness that can be treated.

It doesn't take long for Nana to reveal herself as a delusional Big Brother, a tin-pot Pol Pot.

The statement asserted "that if a person suffers from a delusional disorder, he or she may pass a polygraph test".

In every picture the viewer doesn't have to wonder whether it's an actual object or a delusional one.

He was a lionhearted seaman, a rapacious plunderer, a masterly navigator, a Janus-faced schemer, a liberator of oppressed tribes, a delusional megalomaniac.

This is a psychological thriller about a delusional girl.

And I say girlfriends as a gay man, not a delusional TV viewer.

The intensity of such a preoccupation can assume a delusional connotation with repercussions on resistance to treatment by lowering motivation [ 28] and generating strong ambivalence [ 30].