Sentence examples for collective delusion from inspiring English sources
But this isn't the result of collective delusion.
Instead, it's a movie about mass hysteria and collective delusion".
I found the collective delusion startling even then.
To suggest otherwise is collective delusion, or something closer to deceit.
But I also sensed, in the robotically sanguine accounts of McMaster's team, a collective delusion.
Except that, when viewed alongside the fact of Rikers, it appears more like a collective delusion.
It hasn't helped that several modern incidents of mass panic leading to physical symptoms have depended on bizarre collective delusions -- the belief in alien landings, for example.
If Jeb Bush doesn't become a byword for the collective delusions of a political class, then the lessons of this election won't have been learned.
In the face of all available evidence – in council elections, byelections and opinion polls – there was collective self-delusion, and the party was going to press ahead to disaster".
Taking a picture feels like signing up to some mad collective self-delusion that we are all artists with an eye for beauty, when the tragicomic truth is that the sheer plenitude and repetition of modern amateur photography makes beauty glib.
"A very strange idea has spread in the Western media concerning Afghanistan: that the U.S. military is withdrawing from the country next year, and that the present Afghan war has therefore entered into an 'endgame.' The use of these phrases reflects a degree of unconscious wishful thinking that amounts to collective self-delusion".
