A talent he lacked was the one for self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
So does this involve lying, or just self-deception?. From Wordnik.com. [naima101 Diary Entry] Reference
She did not allow herself a moment's self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
But then, self-deception is a hallmark of this family. From Wordnik.com. [Books: The Emperor's New Prada?] Reference
Perhaps memory is always an exercise in self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Recollecting World War Ii] Reference
There is a vast amount of self-deception on this point. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
There's a fair amount of self-deception and cynicism here. From Wordnik.com. [Political Child Abuse] Reference
When put to the test he is surprised at his self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
I have much less tendency to self-deception than most people. From Wordnik.com. [A Killer's Self-Portrait] Reference
This was all lies, all self-deception, refusal to face the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower And The Hotspur]
That self-deception was as near as Josephine ever came to triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
I think that his mind is capable of almost infinite self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: A Look Back at Mark David Chapman in His Own Words - September 30, 2000] Reference
He wanted to understand deception — and self-deception — not practice it. From Wordnik.com. [The Bling Is The Thing] Reference
"Unless you mean self-deception, I would like an explanation of that remark.". From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
With Victor Le Roy such self-deception, such sophistry, was simply impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
The most common and the most destructive form of dishonesty is self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
Weakness, pettiness, self-deception were the main objects of Thackeray's satire. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
It seems that at the root of it is self-deception, arising out of self-interest. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2007] Reference
The first risk is that this exposes us to the conse - quences of self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [True Names]
But such was their absurd self-deception about the most virile of European races. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
One of the gravest dangers which beset women is that of hysterical self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
"But nothing stable can be built upon such an unhealthy foundation of self-deception!". From Wordnik.com. [Cubs of the Wolf] Reference
I see relief for her only through the culminating self-deception that disease does not exist. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
That alone does not mean that the claims reflect self-deception or hoaxes, as skeptics assert. From Wordnik.com. [Is There Anything To It? Evidence, Please.] Reference
She was thinking they were unraveling the wrong spell — such a simple bit of self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [Memory of Fire]
It was so new a thing to be tempted, that at times his own self-deception was made easy to him. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Nor does deception lead more surely to distrust of men than self-deception to suspicion of principles. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Still, some awareness of his self-deception would remain with him, even if he refused to think about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Seen again, as he viewed it now, the town would look raw and provincial despite patriotic throes of self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
When we first spoke, Martin talked about Nietzsche's insistence on the necessity of being honest about self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [The Bling Is The Thing] Reference
Regarding that point there was no self-deception in those English circles which did not belong to the conspiracy; Edward. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
But besides the self-deception, the strong and hasty laborers of the street do not work well with the chronic valetudinarian. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference
Ridiculous as such self-deception is, I have seen too many instances of it to doubt the probability of its existing in your case. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends] Reference
"I think a lot of Clancy's interest in self-deception came from his interest in who his dad was," says his ex-wife, Alicia Martin. From Wordnik.com. [The Bling Is The Thing] Reference
Only a military mind, with a very limited descriptive vocabulary and a chronic habit of self-deception, would call the place orderly. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917] Reference
Moreover, all of this willed positive thinking, she felt, would make us more prone to self-deception and weaken our efforts at virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Peace of Mind: The Battle] Reference
I do not say you did not believe what you professed, but I always thought that you forced yourself into that belief by self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City] Reference
As she stared before her, hand gripping hand, her bloodless lips moving inarticulately, she saw the monstrous folly of her self-deception. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
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