Sentence examples similar to the self deception from inspiring English sources

Now there were reasons for the self-deception, as there always are.

Ultimately, the self-deception that Hollywood fears most involves the box office, which dropped six per cent in 2017.

It is more than just an account of the failures of regulators and the self-deception of bankers and homebuyers, although these are well covered.

It counterpoints the self-deception and denial experienced by many gay men in 1958 with the relative sexual freedom of 2008.

It also captures the self-deception inherent in those clerics and collectors who sought refuge from a bewildering industrialized present in a romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

This is an example, so blatant I couldn't have dreamt it up, of the self-deception that exists alongside the hard work, idealism, and engineering brilliance of Silicon Valley.

It is refreshing to talk about the future prospects for peace and war in Syria with those doing the actual fighting because discussion is free of the self-deception and wishful thinking so frequent outside the country.

As for the self-deception, this is sometimes farcical: Catalan public television offers a weather forecast that includes provinces that have been part of France since 1659, but no meteorological information for Zaragoza or Madrid.

Would Carmela finally tire of the self-deception that has allowed her to believe she is a devout Roman Catholic while living handsomely off the proceeds of her mobster husband's evil ways?

The self-deception of those who blame others for failure or wrongdoing of their own making ("Cast Blame. Watch It Boomerang," Nov. 26) calls to mind a speech by Edmund in King Lear.

"The Democratic Party of Serbia is no longer ready to take part in the self-deception of the government, as well as the misleading of the people," the statement said.