Sentence examples for deluding oneself from inspiring English sources
They are also hobbled by the human need to deny approaching reality, to keep deluding oneself, while the murderers and persecutors, as Mr. Appelfeld said, know precisely what they intend to do.
Max Mosley, president of the sport's governing body, believes it is possible to establish a rival: "One would be deluding oneself to imagine that the manufacturers could not do what they wanted to do if they were to set their minds to it," he said recently.
It is deluding oneself to believe that we can be truly patient with others without first developing patience with ourselves.
But that truth is no excuse for carrying around excess weight, or deluding oneself into thinking that fat can be healthy.
"It is no good trying to delude oneself that one can escape the consequences of a great catastrophe," Woolf wrote.
One should not delude oneself about the people or things one cares most about in one's life.
And a few years ago it was possible to delude oneself into believing that this represented a true convergence of thought.
To the Editor: While "Florence, Then and Now" offers the vision of a relaxed stay in Florence, a la E. M. Forster, one should not delude oneself into thinking that this overtouristy city is necessarily going to cooperate.
To think otherwise is to delude oneself and place Jews at risk.
To believe otherwise would be to delude oneself that Asia is immune to the plethora of ills that plague the global landscape.
They are deluding themselves.
