Sentence examples for delusion as from inspiring English sources

I suffer from this delusion as much as anybody.

Likewise, The Translation of the Bones registers the potential within religious belief for mania, obsession and delusion as much as for uplift, consolation and compassion.

But the fact of good movies being available widely doesn't help the world at large, and it's an enduring critical delusion (as well as a mode of demagogy) to assume and assert that it does.

It apparently incites delusion as well.

We can take the belief in that puppet to be a delusion, as the rationalists did.

But that view is a delusion, as our special report explains.

What happened will be seen as a moment of self-delusion as much as grand illusion.

His life ended in a haze of vodka and cocaine, the self-belief perhaps slightly dented, the self-delusion as strong as ever.

By the mid-seventies, however, the author of "genre books" was obviously a major novelist who understood the complications of deceit and self-delusion as well any writer.

Insisting that worrisome minorities are "tiny" is in part a form of wishful thinking, as if saying something often enough could make it true, and rhetorical tininess could shrink reality.This sort of euphemism is sometimes a kind of self-delusion as well as a deception.

Instead, he had a bigger puzzle-box narrative in mind, one that plays on the viewer's delusions as well as those of the characters.