I think he speaks to the darkness of judgement and a delusory sense of superiority. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Dobson: I Want To Cure Ted Haggard of Being Gay But Don’t Have Time, It ‘Could Take Four or Five Years’] Reference
But it is delusory to imagine that one can redeem the materiality of sounds thus produced. From Wordnik.com. [Response to Thomas Pfau] Reference
In particular, he undermined the West's most potent myth of diabolic amorality and delusory hubris. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama, Shaman] Reference
Indeed, for all I knew, he might be using others of his girls in these same cruel and delusory labors. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
The results of this self-delusory approach to corporate image brochures are plain to see: high costs and low value. From Wordnik.com. [How to write a corporate image brochure people will truly want to read « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
Whether they were delusory or not, these ideas would not help me accept my coming fate-or avert Oona's bloody death!. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreamthief's Daughter]
This undermines any linguistic assumption of the substantiality of things and hence any delusory attachments to them. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
You can see the side-by-side comparison here, but the most delusory part of this is Dowd's explanation: josh is right. From Wordnik.com. [double click command-c command-v] Reference
'Fess up, Mets fans: After these last two delusory seasons, aren't you even a little tempted to walk the wire with Ollie?. From Wordnik.com. [The One Thing the Mets Don't Need] Reference
But demonstration which touches the real and will not mislead is superior to that which moves among unrealities and is delusory. From Wordnik.com. [Posterior Analytics] Reference
Unhappily, a quarter century of superficial triumph, however delusory in substance, will not vanish from the Islamic psyche overnight. From Wordnik.com. [Cold War Deja vu: The “Realists” Aren’t] Reference
Reality, the Absolute, is basically mental, a sort of timeless and harmonious group mind of which our separate selves are (perhaps delusory) aspects. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Moral Philosophy] Reference
The Protestants were forced by the use of skeptical arguments to rely solely on their private experience, which they could never prove was not delusory. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
"I have seemed to notice such things, " I said, -but I was drugged in my apartment, Obviously such sensations are delusory, merely the effects of that drug. From Wordnik.com. [Kajira Of Gor]
I don†™ t linger a lot in self-delusory exercises in control †don†™ t describe too much or even have to have an objective idea of what a scene is about. From Wordnik.com. [inkblurt · David Milch’s Active Imagination] Reference
Self respect can be and so very often is delusory. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
TJie objefts of sense ate not thus delusory and vain. From Wordnik.com. [A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps] Reference
Garrick's Head, and for a brief, delusory moment it seemed like a good idea. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
It would be delusory to take the MB's democratic protestations at face value. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Truth, in other words, is what is real -- to hold to falsity is unethical and delusory. From Wordnik.com. [ExChristian.Net -- encouraging ex-Christians] Reference
It's delusory to think that these Maoists are really working for the good of their country or people. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Maliki is among tens of thousands of Iraqis for whom justice is a delusory buzz-word of a departing occupation. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Truthful thoughts bring genuine results whereas delusory thoughts induce the results we read in our daily newspapers. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
Hence, there are delusory results, e. g., in the calculation of mortality, of the statements of witnesses and judicial deliverances. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
So far as the physical world is concerned, it is a mere by-product, a useless adjunct -- the feeling of energy-expenditure being delusory. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
If these prove to be delusory -- the result of subliminal activity and so forth -- if there be no spiritual world, then "psychics" may be said to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal] Reference
Is monstrousness why no serious public figure now will speak of the delusory trade-off of liberty for safety that Ben Franklin warned about more than 200 years ago?. From Wordnik.com. [DovBear] Reference
One-fifth of surveyed issuers have shifted to tiered late payments, which Consumer Action construes as a delusory manner of charging higher-than-average late fees. From Wordnik.com. [Managing Your Credit Card] Reference
It will be rebuked by the superintending Power, because it is fatal to the highest development of nations, because all its glories are delusory, because it sows the seeds of ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Beacon Lights of History] Reference
This seems seems to illustrate the delusory nature of Musharraf’s current struggles with Nawaz Sharif, and the A. From Wordnik.com. [07 « June « 2008 « Niqnaq] Reference
"If sometimes we feel that hope is delusory, it is not simply because the graphs tracking" business as usual "all point to doom. From Wordnik.com. [Noises off: I think, therefore I am not a drama student] Reference
The distinctions are not delusory. From Wordnik.com. [School of Names] Reference
This is self-delusory. From Wordnik.com. [The Herald-Mail Online] Reference
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