Sentence examples for has deluded himself from inspiring English sources

In this sense Abbott is hobbled, and has deluded himself.

The main character has deluded himself into believing that he is a superman, but as circumstances assail him he becomes overwhelmed with shame and finally commits suicide.

"Don't forget about poker," he said, desperate to win back a certain stack of red chips that he has deluded himself into thinking he has a chance to regain.

Jack has deluded himself into thinking that after he's gone, the blue-collar Keener will make a jim-dandy surrogate mom for his troubled daughter, but as Keener already has two loser kids of her own - one a mopey stoner, the other a porker who wants to be a hair stylist - this is not going to come to pass.

The event will be all the more unexpected because the student has deluded himself into thinking the test is impossible.

He also has deluded himself into thinking inflation will be easily contained.

He may have deluded himself into thinking that by taking hostages he could force a prosecutor to review his earlier dismissal.

"At other times, I gained the impression that he was not necessarily being deliberately dishonest, but had deluded himself into believing his own version of events.

What if Trump, having deluded himself into thinking he's going to pick up Kim Jong Un's bombs, suddenly decides that he's been double-crossed?

And, perhaps most devastating to a man whose inflated self-belief was nearly all he had left, she said he had "deluded himself into believing his own version of events".

At the end of the case last year, the judge called Mr. Berezovsky "dishonest," "unimpressive" and "inherently unreliable," adding that he had "deluded himself into believing his own version of events".