Sentence examples for as a delusion from inspiring English sources

All that remains for Godard is individual witness: collective work, presumably, being belatedly recognised as a delusion.

The "war on terrorism" is not a paranoid mind-set that can be dismissed as a delusion.

On September 16, however, he was in Canada, and his premonition was interpreted by investigators as a delusion that came true by coincidence.

Although a local minister to whom he related the vision dismissed it as a delusion, Smith continued to believe in its authenticity.

With dreams of happiness shattered and the past revealed as a delusion, the quiet corners of daily life resound, almost unbearably, with madness.

By the same token, the injunction "know thyself," the ultimate chocolate-cherry in the candy box of Western wisdom, was brushed off by Zen adherents as a delusion.

But in his last, "Truth and Truthfulness" (2002), he sought to speak plainly, and took on the post-modern, politically correct notion that truth is merely relative, particularly as it is expressed in the work of by his former colleague Richard Rorty, who argues that truth is dispensable and that its pursuit is a form of substitute religion and as such a delusion.

But what actually doomed the project was a delusion almost as damaging as the one that fuelled the crowd at Freddy's.

The one thing that never seems to work in a love story is the language of love itself, which is, as Don Quixote discovered, a delusion and a dangerous lie.

We can take the belief in that puppet to be a delusion, as the rationalists did.

But that view is a delusion, as our special report explains.