Sentence examples for this shared delusion from inspiring English sources

It is this shared delusion that is exposed, and now we must critically examine ourselves.

We all nodded and smiled to each other, enjoying the shared delusion.

The shared delusion about long-term hormone replacement therapy started innocently enough.

"Parasitosis is a classic form of shared delusion," said Dr. Mary Seeman, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

"Jasper Johns may have been suggesting that America, too, is a fantasy, a shared delusion," Conrad remarks about the enigmatic flag paintings.

This is a story about the need to belong, the corrupting and isolating power of wealth, the potency of a shared delusion and the inescapable frailties that make us all human.

Calling himself a "fictionalizing philosopher," he began with an assumption that causality is a shared delusion and that even concepts like space and time have a limited basis in reality.

There is a shared delusion driving education reform.

These narratives rely on a collaborative dedication to build a shared delusion.

In a review of the history of the Moberly-Jourdain andentheextensive extensive public reaction to it Terry Castle noted with skepticism the claim that a shared delusion may have arisen out of a lesbian folie à deux between the two women.

The result is the most lacerating American satire in years, fearless in the way that it takes apart our sacred cows and shared delusions.