Sentence examples for deluded into believing from inspiring English sources

Deluded into believing that his enterprise has made him smarter, Jacobs constantly seeks to bedazzle the reader with his latest shocking discoveries, unaware that things he perceives as riveting arcana are common knowledge in many quarters.

But against a backdrop of a rapidly changing economy, Mr. Greenspan said, "it is essential that we not be deluded into believing that we have somehow discovered the Rosetta stone of monetary policy".

Even as Charlie Parker sank deeper and deeper into heroin addiction, countless lesser talents eagerly started on their own drug habits, deluded into believing that opiates might be the key to the seemingly superhuman realms of aesthetic wizardry inhabited by Parker.

JERUSALEM — For many Israelis, the 1973 Arab-Israeli war was their single most terrifying moment, when a woefully unprepared nation, deluded into believing that its neighbors regarded it as impregnable, suffered a devastating attack and struggled back to victory at enormous cost with last-minute American help.

This was Valerio Zurlini's visually stunning Estate Violenta (The Violent Summer), centred on an affair between a married woman in her 30s and a younger man (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant), all on holiday in that beguiling summer of 1943 when Mussolini had been arrested and many Italians were deluded into believing that fascism had been defeated.

However, those who are deluded into believing that they have a good chance of survival have a slightly better (though still not good) chance of survival.

The subsequent emotional criss-crossing escalates into certain tragedy when Alzira is blackmailed into giving in to Gusmano's demands, and Zamoro is deluded into genuinely believing that she has betrayed him.

The new chancellor lambasted his predecessors who "deluded themselves into believing that growth, however unbalanced, was evidence of their success.

They did not see the Luftwaffe realistically; they deluded themselves into believing it could do the impossible.

The main character has deluded himself into believing that he is a superman, but as circumstances assail him he becomes overwhelmed with shame and finally commits suicide.

The Council of Florence, Cosimo's most important success in foreign relations, deluded itself into believing it had finally ended the schism with the Eastern Church.