Sentence examples for based on delusions from inspiring English sources

Not all of the concerns about the church's political ambitions are based on delusions.

One of its central themes is the paradox that geographical theories of prodigious improbability still held sway in the era of the Enlightenment, inspiring exploratory voyages based on delusions.

His ambitions aren't necessarily based on delusions of grandeur – the legalisation opened up a potentially huge market.

"Texas also does not prohibit application of the death penalty on persons with severe mental disorders that significantly impair their ability to control their conduct... such as schizophrenia... even if their actions were based on delusions caused by their illness".

But they do speak for many, and the fear they share is real, even if it's based on delusion, ignorance and irrational hatred — of the government, of immigrants, of the secular world, but mostly of President Obama.

Ego is based on delusion and wishful thinking--it is artifice.

Unfortunately, though the new realism may have come soon enough to prevent a disaster on Social Security -- for Mr. Bush's other signature policy proposal was also based on the delusions of a bubble economy -- it has come too late to prevent a disastrous tax cut.

Caylor deemed the "double curve" to be "an ocular delusion," but claimed that Getzein's nickname was based on the delusion: "[W]e have the nickname of 'the Pretzel Pitcher,' given to Getzein by players who imagine the curve from his hands comes at them with the curves of a pretzel".

Half the platform of each party was based on a delusion.

And when at the end she says the relationship was based on a delusion, it's hard to reconcile that with her clear-eyed character.

No sooner had Dwight Eisenhower taken office than he told an acquaintance that it was going to be damned difficult to conduct a foreign policy based on the delusion that China was an offshore island.