Sentence examples for self-deceived from inspiring English sources
The word "self-deceived" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to describe someone who has deceived themselves, usually through false beliefs or misconceptions. For example, "The politician was self-deceived into believing that the public would support his policies."
Initially, such a model may not appear promising for self-deception, since simply being mistaken about p or accidentally causing oneself to be mistaken about p doesn't seem to be self-deception at all but some sort of innocent error Sam doesn't seem self-deceived, just deceived.
David Lodge has observed how odd James's condescension is, given that he came to specialise in the very technique Austen had pioneered: "Telling the story through the consciousness of characters whose understanding of events is partial, mistaken, deceived, or self-deceived".
But a poker player should not be self-deceived, and when it comes to his own standing among the most serious players Bellin isn't.
Scene 9 – In which the Grand Inquisitor is, finally, defended So what about us human beings, feeble, imperfect, self-deceived — the weakest reeds in nature?
Overextended, self-deceived, insecure with his staff and prone to tears, Jonathan is much more a quivering entrepreneur than a self-assured matinee idol.
"He's very intransigent — in the best sense of the word," says the director Sydney Pollack, who turned in a splendid acting performance as one of the self-deceived spouses in "Husbands and Wives".
Trivers abruptly realizes he is seeing his reflection in a store window: "Real me is seen as ugly me by self-deceived me".
Pozner tries her best to honor this proscription, following the trail blazed, half a century ago, by the theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, who lamented that "the deceived masses" were easy marks for a cynical and self-perpetuating "culture industry".
The deceived husband, a former Austrian general, receives Konrad, his deceiver and onetime bosom friend and fellow officer, for a confrontation he has broodingly prepared through 40 years of separation and silence.
"Going" is followed, however, by a number of poems not included in "The Less Deceived" but appearing, rather, in the unpublished collection "In the Grip of Light" (1947) or in the self-published "XX Poems" (1951), which Larkin pulled together after "The North Ship," published by the raffish Reginald Caton's small Fortune Press, sank with scarcely a trace.
For Cornel Hrisca-Munn, this metric deceived him completely.
