Helpless in the grip of their own self-delusion, the slave owners undermined their own cause.
Palin bellowed that on issues of foreign policy, there is no room for self-delusion.
For self-delusion this strong, I thought you had to go to Waterloo, Ontario.
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True bubbles are supposed to involve a certain element of self-delusion and mania.
It was not an act of martyrdom, or of arrogance or self-delusion, but, rather, an exercise in intellectual consistency.
Willy's shortcomings appear to be caused by a mix of hubris and self-delusion.
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Tim Cook and his management team ought to be up to avoiding self-delusion.
It's all too easy, history reminds us, for self-invention to slip into self-delusion.
For decades, psychologists have debated whether narcissism is a form of self-delusion, a cognitive bias, or a self-serving social strategy.
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Most days, a walking affront to the self-delusion of France, he would appear with his yellow dossier underneath his arm.
What capacity for self-delusion is required to believe that granting captured terrorists Common Article Three protections will suddenly reduce their depravity?
Instead, they offered proposals that were modest to the point of self-delusion.
It was a house of delusion, but you know, sort of a, how do I put it, kind of a grand and poetic self-delusion.
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One even produced a copy of the children's book, "The Emperor's New Clothes", which he read aloud, to emphasise the deception and self-delusion at the company.
But I had to admire the weird mix of gumption and self-delusion in a guy like Tom Savini, a.k.a. the Gore King, a.k.a. the King of Splatter.
In fact, they are a study in self-delusion: we visit them to encounter something real, then observe them through fake Indian tales, audio tours and IMAX films.
That these recommendations are completely contradicted by the results of their own research reveals the ability of intellectuals to perpetuate the self-delusion that they are smarter than markets.
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The abandonment of Zionist values and public and private integrity by our politicians and media has cast and kept Israel on a path of self-delusion where the only thing that matters is immediate gratification.
Nasar weaves people, places, politics, banking, social injustice, war, depression, recession, personal relations, personalities, sex, anti-Semitism, self-doubt, physical impairment, espionage, poverty, personal finance, self-delusion, self-interest, and much more in a book that educates as thoroughly and gracefully as it entertains.
The man really is a romantic, richly nourished by self-delusion, and Mr. McConaughey, with his musical voice and commanding physique, sustains a delicate balance between Mud's poetic yearning for his girlfriend, Juniper she's played to slatternly perfection by Reese Witherspoon and his survival instinct, which prompts him to enlist his naive acolytes as accomplices to his escape.
Lane perceived that liberals suffer from a self-satisfied delusion about how the world works.
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