Sentence examples similar to the self delusion from inspiring English sources

This is the self-delusion of a bronze age.

This is not merely evidence of the self-delusion to which all politicians are prey.

The Times Magazine consumer columnist aims to dispel the self-delusion that clouds our buying habits.

The heartbreak, however, lies in the self-delusion that silences protest.

What Blythe brings out best is the self-delusion that afflicts even these supposedly hard-headed sex workers.

And Ejiofor gave us everything we could hope for: the dignity, the rage, the self-delusion, the sublime word-music.

Stripped of the self-delusion that the original is a lost, unreachable classic, this is a vibrantly successful production.

Most days, a walking affront to the self-delusion of France, he would appear with his yellow dossier underneath his arm.

His life ended in a haze of vodka and cocaine, the self-belief perhaps slightly dented, the self-delusion as strong as ever.

"This is the self-delusion that buoys up hope," he explains, "and I think this describes me adequately at the time.

Orwell saw the self-delusion in it; for the nationalist, "certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible".