SCHNEIDER: Including maybe a little self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2009] Reference
This administration has great powers of self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: Disaster In The Making] Reference
Above all would he avoid self-delusion in these things. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Think of vanity sizing as self-delusion on a mass scale. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Is the New Fat] Reference
"At some point reality has to impinge on self-delusion.". From Wordnik.com. [Customers Wanted--Fast] Reference
The greatest performance of my life was my self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [I Have Learned To Hope] Reference
It's part of this self-delusion that's taking place here. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2003] Reference
In this claim I see at the very least a fearful self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
I have never read such a succinct statement of Arab self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
A masterpiece of self-delusion and "whistling past the graveyard.". From Wordnik.com. [Harold Ickes: Hillary Will Need "A Few" More Super-Dels Than Obama To Catch Him] Reference
And as for all the "nothing to see here" posts --- what self-delusion!. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Oh how should we marvel at their madness, and lament their self-delusion!. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)] Reference
Iraqi officialdom hasn't lost its breathtaking capacity for self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Iraq's Blood Drive] Reference
In some cases, the self-delusion continues right up to the moment of birth. From Wordnik.com. [Cradles To Coffins] Reference
Our foreign policy must be rooted in realism, not naivete or self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
And I think it's a very human process of self-delusion and rationalization. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2006] Reference
The only thing entertaining about you is your naive level of self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
For all his self-delusion, he was a perfectionist who prized self-discipline. From Wordnik.com. [Day & Night] Reference
He sees now that Mary's will to live may have tipped over into self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [No Way to Treat the Dying] Reference
We go through cycles of self-delusion, sometimes too giddy and sometimes too glum. From Wordnik.com. [Good Times Breed Bad Times] Reference
His funniest short stories concern characters wallowing gloriously in self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Diary Of A Mad Houseboy] Reference
Which indicates that they have reached a stage of self-delusion that is irreversible. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
If history teaches anything it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly. From Wordnik.com. [Address to British Parliament] Reference
You look back on the Enron story and it really is a story of rationalization and of self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2006] Reference
There's a level of self-delusion in his statements, in the wire taps that -- that's really amazing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2008] Reference
Draped in the arms of his friends, he disappeared into the night for more alcohol and self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Ricky Hatton's love of the high life sent him crashing back to earth] Reference
They're moments of happy self-delusion, which warm me for a second before the clouds of self-doubt scud back in. From Wordnik.com. [Julia Stuart: How a Beefeater and a Tortoise Captured America's Attention] Reference
My other theory is that some people still harbor the bogus belief, based on self-delusion, that they're getting a deal. From Wordnik.com. [Duty Free: What's So Free?] Reference
Keitel is extraordinary at capturing Rocco's ambiguous mixture of cynicism and idealism, professionalism and self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Last Exits In Brooklyn] Reference
Response to prayer is whittled down to a species of self-delusion, to be valued on account of its subjective influence only. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
He considers calls for a ceasefire, like those of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as exercises in self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [Buckeye Blues] Reference
Republicans, who have controlled the White House for all but four years since 1969, have their own strategies of self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [The No Bull Campaign] Reference
Outlasting the Nazis as a boy and fleeing the communists as a youth turned Soros into a connoisseur of governmental self-delusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Cash Machine] Reference
Shakespeare's "legal acquirements" excite only a smile at the self-delusion of the critic who could regard them for a moment in that light. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
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