Sentence examples for mutual delusion from inspiring English sources

Mutual delusion seems a nebulous basis for negotiation.

"I think there was mutual delusion on that," said Mr. Kernan, who took over as president two months ago.

The essence of the film is a love story that rises from mutual delusion, and that perspective makes this uproarious and antic comedy, in its moral soul, an essential work of intimate realism.

Fox News can remind one of a sort of Grey Gardens, a hothouse of mutual delusion in which the rubbish accumulates as reality recedes, but without the quirky fashion sense or the cabaret numbers.

Now, as the New York Times reported last Sunday July 5, the bill for this mutual delusion is coming due.

"It's a contract of mutual self-delusion," says the British photographer Phil Toledano, who has photographed phone sex operators in their homes, often in the rooms where they work.

Mayer traces the road from reform to rage and terror, one of menace and fear, vengeance and countervengeance, exhilaration, self-delusion and mutual carnage.

Delusions of persecution are very common polythematic delusions.

All this accompanied, at least in the west, by a turmoil of argument among intellectuals and artists, of bitter rivalries, sudden apostasy, self-delusion and deep mutual suspicion.

Delusion piled upon delusion.

Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864-November 1865) Dickens's last completed novel is a marvel of play-acting and posturing, of taking on roles through delusion, calculation and ambition.