Sentence examples for or delude from inspiring English sources

Even then, the camera is so intimately trapped in the trust of the moment, and the boy so plainly believes that he has, however fleetingly, found someone to love him, that, for once, the old saw of the censor — that a work of art may serve to harm or delude impressionable minds — doesn't seem so obtuse, and you could make a good liberal, rather than a conservatively irate, case for giving "L.I.E".

But you do not live for praise or seek glory for yourself -- or delude yourself into thinking you achieved success all on your own.

Should Recorded Future succeed, it could turn the production and accumulation of information and knowledge into a never-ending race between the forecasters of the future and those who seek to assuage or delude them.

Because it is self-evident to Frank that people's true interests are material ones, it is also self-evident to him that conservatives can only be either deluders or deluded, knaves or fools.

The other 20% must have been lying or deluded.

The characters are actually easy to keep straight because each is miserable — or deluded — in his or her own way.

The presence of a superlative strikes literalists as either dishonest or deluded — a beauty pageant masquerading as a spelling bee.

It was not so much predatory lenders as it was imprudent, or deluded, borrowers, who bear the blame.

Most of the white people in "The Wind Done Gone" are portrayed as cowardly, ineffectual or deluded.

That longstanding obsession has given her empathy for other women's selective self-loathing, however harsh or deluded their judgment.

If you're betting that Alicia (Julianna Margulies) is at least partly dishonest or deluded, I think you may be playing a winning hand.