Sentence examples for she deceived herself from inspiring English sources

And the part of herself that invests in being a good daughter, wife, and friend, the part that she grooms every day and puts lipstick on, the part that takes Paul to dinner and screams, "Swim like hell, Paul!" at the Special Olympics, believes that through a trick of memory she deceived herself all these years into thinking she told a lie when really she never lied at all.

Instead Helene becomes the most fascinating character on the screen as Ms. Ryan reveals the complexity of her deceit, gradually peeling back the layers, including the way she deceives herself, until the true measure of the woman is revealed.

Instead, he forces her to admit that she has deceived herself about why they separated, and offers a new way to come to terms with her stubborn feeling of loss.

Nin manipulated her voluminous diary for the purposes of self-promotion, used her talent for seduction to compensate for her limited writing talent and then took refuge in "the biggest lie of all, the one she used to deceive herself and to excuse herself: that she was an artist, and so a being of a separate order".

I'm so sympathetic to that sick dismay Lynette feels when Toby asks about her music, and her impulse to conceal her failure from him although she's not deceiving herself one iota.

Alice's greatest failing is not that she is able to deceive herself about Charlie, but that she is painfully aware that she often chooses to do so to maintain the status quo.

Neptune's placement in her birth chart gives her a propensity to deceive herself, so she ignores the many signs of this man's lack of serious interest in her.

She appears as Jane Vale, who knows she is 40 and does not wish to deceive herself about her age.

Helen is funny, she is smart, and she has a sense of progressive liberal righteousness — all of which help her to deceive herself about her own murderous intentions.

Daphne Stone deceives herself in thinking that the piece still has "all the qualities she had admired" since she was wrong to think that it ever had those qualities in the first place.

Take the case of a mother who deceives herself into believing her husband is not abusing their daughter because she can't bear the thought that he is a moral monster (Barnes 1997).