Sentence examples for delusions with from inspiring English sources

It is marked by hallucinations and delusions, with sufferers hearing voices or feeling that they are being controlled.

But while Mr. Letts attacks American delusions with the battering ram of melodrama, scattering skeletons from all kinds of closets, Mr. Foote employs more devious means.

Mr. Chivery Ron Cookk), the turnkey, has kept a watchful eye on the prison for decades, treating Dorrit, despite all his airs and delusions, with courtesy and also calculation.

The first half of Lasse Hallström's film, written by William Wheeler, zips through these frauds and grand delusions with glee; Hallström seems happier in such slippery company than he did with the sluggishness of "Chocolat" or "The Shipping News".

In his State of the State address, Mr. O'Malley, a Democrat, bucked the no-new-taxes delusions with a blunt reminder that, sooner or later, taxpayers must pay for the services they enjoy.

Schrank has done something here that may sound impossible: He's written a funny novel about publishing that is not caustic but optimistic, not biting but bighearted — a story about the delusions with which self-aware, smart people are all too willing to live in order to avoid the painful (yet entertaining) upheaval that comes with truth.

F-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography revealed reduced metabolic activity in the right lateral frontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, and bilateral temporal cortex in patients with delusions, overlapping with areas associated with loss of memory and insight [ 102].

Specifically, impairment of expressive language was associated with delusions and with a tendency for depression.

Still, no matter how much the women in his life complain about his astringent verbiage — he breaks down their self-delusions with the appetite of a lover disrobing the beloved — it was his tongue that drew them to him in the first place.

But Mildred Dunning conveys the necessity of her self-delusion with heartbreaking clarity.

But it replaces that delusion with another: That people can be made miserable enough to leave on their own.