Sentence examples for element of delusion from inspiring English sources

By expecting to be hurt, do they subtly encourage it?" A significant element of delusion permeated his thinking: "Bundy was always surprised when anyone noticed that one of his victims was missing, because he imagined America to be a place where everyone is invisible except to themselves.

There is always an element of self-delusion when great stars face the downward slope.

At least, I think that's what the editors of National Review mean by the "element of self-delusion" that they believe characterizes supporters of gay marriage.

An element of self-delusion in the human condition interested him, the gap that separates real understanding from what is claimed or supposed, and the incomprehension at the root of human relationships.

There was undeniably an element of self-delusion in that identification -- most of us had a lot more to fall back on after our odysseys, than, say, the desperate Okies of "The Grapes of Wrath" -- but our wanderlust and our desire for freedom were real enough.

But as Davie effectively demonstrates, there was an element of self-delusion about the might of the British Empire if Australians thought that Britain would happily send off its fleet to the South Pacific when still faced by German invasion of its own shores.

To its element of fantasy and delusion, Harvey adds a sense of the alienating power of architecture and urbanism similar to that of Michelangelo Antonioni's contemporaneous films.

We share many things and I have always believed in our brotherhood, which is why it hurts to see us fall hopelessly together into that element which Fitzgerald knew by heart: an utterly terrible grandness of delusion.

Tennis players are masters of delusion.

The level of delusion is chilling.

Here were bands in various stages of delusion and defensiveness.