Sentence examples for or deluded from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

He was not looking back on these feelings from the safe perch of a diminished libido, or deluding himself that they were abnormal.

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

But that truth is no excuse for carrying around excess weight, or deluding oneself into thinking that fat can be healthy.

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.

Like Popper, Bloor and his successors in SSK were also concerned with the demarcation question that confronts judges in admissibility decisions: what makes an assertion about the nature of the world genuinely, or adequately, scientific rather than merely wishful, subjective, interested, grounded in superstition, or even deluded?