Sentence examples for capacity for self-delusion from inspiring English sources

She had an incredible capacity for self-delusion".

I reckoned without the limitless capacity for self-delusion of British academe.

She inherited her father's "clear-eyed realism", whereas her horror at her mother's capacity for self-delusion lives with Barber to this day.

Jefferson's capacity for self-delusion is suggested in the way he always refers to Sally as a servant, not a slave.

And the director, Anne Fontaine, is clearly, at least in part, offering up a satire on male sexual vanity and the capacity for self-delusion it creates.

WHETHER he possesses a bottomless capacity for self-delusion or simply breathtaking cynicism, Sepp Blatter's performance at a press conference earlier this week was beyond parody.

"The capacity of this body for self-delusion appears to this senator to be unlimited.

"The capacity of this body for self-delusion appears to this senator to be unlimited," said Senator Slade Gorton, Republican of Washington.

Rows of St George crosses still flapped from pubs, like the day after the night before - an embarrassing reminder of our capacity for self-delusion.

The X axis is the tendency of people, normatively but not exclusively women, to be inscrutable to others; the Y axis is the durable human capacity, generally but not universally male, for self-delusion.

I realised I'd qualified for the World Indoor Record for Self-Delusion.