Sentence examples for border on delusion from inspiring English sources

Ambition on that scale would border on delusion if it weren't for Jin's remarkable past.

Where does this bravado, bordering on delusion, come from?

It's a myth that borders on delusion, for some of the key technologies that led to the internet were underwritten by government subsidies and arose in the context of larger-than-life geopolitical battles.

That requires self-belief that borders on self-delusion.

Like Henry, an American novel nut (hence his sons' names), Carson has decamped across the Atlantic, developing in the process either a commendably positive attitude or an optimism bordering on self-delusion.

It's hard to see how, if Columbus had not possessed such confidence in his own abilities — a confidence bordering on self-delusion — he could have imagined embarking on his first journey or how he could have pressed on through so many dangers, forever hoping to find China and the Grand Khan.

See the entry on delusion, especially §4.2 Are Delusions Beliefs?

Political journalism is often imaginative, but this verges on delusion.

Some representations border on pornography.

Some border on the surreal.

Did their zeal border on bullying?