Sentence examples for some delusions from inspiring English sources

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But some delusions clearly deserve to hang on the wall, as long as everyone is smiling.

This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going.

Some delusions have implausible content (as we saw in the case of Cotard).

Perceptual aberrations can explain the formation of some delusions, but are not always a core factor in the formation of all delusions.

However, motivational factors can still play an important role in the explanation of some delusions, for instance by partially determining the specific content of the reported delusional state.

The second view is that (some) delusions are extreme cases of self-deception and that they have a protective and adaptive function (see Hirstein 2005).

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Chief Brown said Mr. Johnson "obviously had some delusion".

It takes some delusion to conclude that this is a management problem.

For us, though, the genre is clearly comedy, and we begin to comprehend the need for some delusion and the virtue of some misunderstanding, off stage as well as on.

"I suffered from some delusion that I wanted to be an English country girl, a Sloane Ranger donning the old Hunter boots and Barbour jacket to slosh around in mud with the Range Rover," she told the Guardian last year.

Arming myself with many medications and some delusion, I believed in the words of the lady who first offers Lorde a prothestic breast; I would "never know the difference" between my pre- and post-sick self.

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