Sentence examples for common delusion from inspiring English sources
He had grown up in Vilna, now Vilnius in Lithuania, and fled east when the Germans occupied the city, leaving his first wife and mother behind in the common delusion that Germans would persecute only the men.
"It's a romantic, but unhealthy, and unfortunately all too common delusion," she said of girls who liked the character of Draco, continuing that many of the girls thought "that they are going to change someone".
Nora Ephron expresses a surprisingly common delusion among liberals, who have long been blinded by the impossible ideals and expectations they impose on anyone who dares to lead them.
A kind of nationalistic narcissism joins the left and the right in a common delusion: the first believes that American support for Israel and the invasion of Iraq are behind all the turmoil in the Middle East today; the second sees American ideals and military might as the answer to that turmoil.
This engenders feelings of poor self-esteem, with a common delusion that people around that week are somehow 'losers.' " IF this is a big week for in-towners to go out of town, it's also prime time for out-of-towners to come in.
Yet even all this may not placate the nationalists whose real fear is of becoming an ethnic minority and so losing their influence at the polls.Conspiracy unlimitedWhere the pipelines are concerned, the nationalists appear to be gripped by a common delusion that America secretly wants Baluchistan to secede from Pakistan, in order to secure the superpower a new source of oil.
As is stated through literature, the most common psychiatric disturbance that the primary suffers from is schizophrenia and the most common delusions are of persecution.
Unlike the Showtime series "Secret Diary of a Call Girl," the French equivalent, "Maison Close," traffics in prostitution without indulging the common male delusion that women become prostitutes because they enjoy the sex.
This is the by-now common mass delusion theory of bubbles, which is applied - sometimes foolishly - to everything from Dutch tulipmania in the 17th century to the Great Depression.
Delusions of persecution are very common polythematic delusions.
Among the most common are delusions of persecution and grandeur; others include delusions of bodily functioning, guilt, love, and control.
