Sentence examples for serious delusion from inspiring English sources
Beneath the hatred, though, is a serious delusion we all seem to have been infected by, which is that (a) beauty is a fixed category that exists outside cultural and commercial contexts that decree, for example, that tall blondes are beautiful and (b) that women all crave beauty and shun those who have it.
A striking east Londoner of Greek origin, he showed up at ACM a couple of years ago harbouring serious delusions of grandeur.
Gervais starred as David Brent, a boss with serious delusions about his talents as an entertainer and a habit for being outrageously insensitive.
With serious delusions of grandeur, he said things like "Women always leave you when they love you" and "I couldn't bear to shoot it on video".
But Mr. d'Escoto's critics, and they are legion, accuse him of trying to Sandanista-ize the world or having serious delusions of grandeur.
There's also a difference between knowing that your thoughts are irrational on some level and suffering from serious delusions that everyone is really out to hurt you or just out to "get you".
Schizophrenia often causes severe delusions, depression and other serious symptoms, which the drug can relieve.
Then Darian Leader wrote that our whole understanding of mental ill-health is mistaken, and even its most serious symptoms, delusions, are actually a "crucial resource" in overcoming it (How psychiatry became a damage limitation exercise, 22 June).
If the Israeli prime minister and his cabinet thought that eliminating Ahmed Yassin would bring closer the chance of peace and resolution to a conflict that has brought unspoken misery and bloodshed, then it is a government suffering from serious self-delusion.
When a psychiatrist is dealing with someone who claims to be talking to God, and who thinks that an 18-year imprisonment can be defended as a "heart-warming tale", it is pretty obviously a serious case of delusion.
