Sentence examples for bordering on delusion from inspiring English sources

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

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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.

Once again, it takes either self-delusion bordering on sociopathy, or messianic conceit to believe that no matter what you say or do, the television crew who can make or break you with a single edit will somehow fall in line and heap adoration on you.

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.

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

This is bordering on abuse.

We are bordering on insanity".

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This song is sincere, bordering on corny.

Their offense is bordering on incoherent.

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