Sentence examples for outright delusion from inspiring English sources

There is inevitable self justification, sometimes outright delusion.

That failure of comprehension now manifests as outright delusion in Trump's mind.

Perhaps it is merely wishful thinking on your part, and not outright delusion.

That faith was never warranted, but the past month effectively revealed the difference between unfounded optimism and an outright delusion.

"From denial to attempted suicide to outright delusion," Celeste tells Sonia when she demands that God heal her son.

But on the other hand, we might turn to Freud's distinction between an illusion -- which could, against all odds, turn out to be true -- and an outright delusion, which is so clearly out of touch with reality as to be completely insane.

Whether the backdrop is a futuristic United States ("Fiskadoro"), Nicaragua in the 1980s ("The Stars at Noon"), or, in the case of this latest novel, Vietnam in the 1960s, he has consistently promoted a vision of America as a country in the grip of misplaced dreams and outright delusions, intent on exporting its madness abroad.

Issues of fact versus fabrication and distortion, truth versus outright lie or self-delusion, dominate Hoover's story.

The discovery of the ideomotor effect demonstrated that there was no mystery underpinning the eerie happenings of late 19th and early 20th century séances – merely the heady mixture of delusion and occasionally, outright fraud.

The 2016 presidential campaign, like most, has spawned many myths – half-truths, delusions and some outright falsehoods – that spread through the Internet and over the airwaves.

They will stretch the truth or lie outright and may contain not just delusions of grandeur or wealth but ones of financial prudence, too.