Sentence examples for performance delusions from inspiring English sources

If enough of the country's worst drivers reluctantly conclude that protection from human error, along with time saved and reduced insurance, outweigh the surrender of their road mastery to a law-abiding machine, driving will not only be safer, the whole activity could ultimately be separated from the performance delusions of the average Johnson.

LAURIE ANDERSON in performance MICHAEL McMILLEN, Lighthouse (Hotel New Empire), 2010, Mixed media (with digital motion picture projection), 97 x 132 x 144 inches, Courtesy LA Louver, Venice CA. Anderson's latest live solo performance, Delusion, played one night as part of the UCLAlive!

As a result of this accident (which was designed by a rival), the fallen man's performance became a delusion, and for 20 years he believed he was Emperor Enrico IV.

It's a movie of inextricable pairings: mastery of others is inseparable from mastery of self; method, from madness; creation, from power; deception, from self-delusion; performance, from being; and the biggest part of life is filling in the blanks around losses.

The empirical literature suggests that the reasoning performance of people with delusions reflects data-gathering and attribution biases.

The tight-lipped extravagance of the plot's exuberant absurdity foreshadows Terrence Malick's first feature, "Badlands," while Perkins's deadpan delusions anticipate the performance of Paul Walter Hauser in "I, Tonya".

Peggy seems to be locked in a strange combination of shellshock and delusion – a great performance from Kirsten Dunst, who's made her so much more than a loopy narcissist as the season has gone on.

No relationship was found for poor ToM performance and psychotic positive symptomatology, specifically delusions and hallucinations.

Some clinical symptoms or cognitive functions have been related to the overall state of monoamine activity in patients with schizophrenia, (e.g. inverse correlation of the dopamine metabolite HVA with delusions or visual-masking performance).

Furthermore, as Atul Hatwal notes, the party is capable of a self-delusion over its own performance.

Anderson appeared at the festival in 2011 with Delusion and last year with a performance called All the Animals.