Sentence examples for delusional device from inspiring English sources

Hyperrealism was often conflated with myth and declarations of immortality; exaggeration became a kind of self-protective delusional device for listeners who were actually involved in the dangerous lifestyle N.W.A. was chronicling.

"To be a comedian, you have to be a little delusional" he says to the camera at the start of the movie, a device inspired in part by "Annie Hall" and "High Fidelity".

How delusional.

Rex: "He's delusional.

They're delusional.

Is it delusional?

Is he delusional?

Is my kid delusional?

It is almost delusional.

That's delusional.

Douglass was not delusional.