Sentence examples for delusions to avoid the from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors argued that he concocted the delusions to avoid the death penalty.

This is a good way to avoid the delusion that you need to have finished absolutely everything on your list before you submit.

John Gray (Delusions of grandeur, Review, 11 February) writes that "it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that, for Chomsky, America is virtually the sole obstacle to peace in the world".

McCabe and Priebe [ 2] describe a commonly held view that psychiatrists should not discuss patient delusions in order to avoid inadvertently colluding with the patient's beliefs.

12. (C) Ambassador Eikenberry agreed and said that while we support efforts to press him to be a more visible Commander and Chief and push him to get outside of the Palace, we need to avoid self-delusion that he is really stepping up to lead the country and embrace mutual strategic goals until he clearly does so of his own volition.

The use of "safety behaviors" (acts such as gestures or the use of words in specific contexts) to avoid or neutralize imagined threats may actually contribute to the chronicity of delusions.

This leaves open the possibility for the charge of self-delusion or self-deception to re-emerge despite Overall's attempt to avoid this.

That delusion allows a vast majority of Americans, many of them white, to avoid discussing race and racism in a real constructive way.

When Steve got out, he was not in delusion about his remission and was willing to do whatever it took to avoid another crisis.

This humble approach to the comparison of dreams and delusions thus avoids many of the pitfalls of more general, and hence less well-defined, attempts to use dreaming as a model system of standard or altered wake states.

This does not mean indulging ourselves gluttonously, but cultivating tranquillity while avoiding the two greatest human delusions: fear of what we cannot avoid, and desire for what we cannot have.