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Delusion
"Delusion" in a Sentence (13 examples)
That girl is under the delusion that she is a princess.
When I was a kid, I thought that if I died the world would just disappear. What a childish delusion! I just couldn't accept that the world could continue to exist without me.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.
Tom suffered from the delusion that strangers could hear his thoughts. Of course that's nonsense.
Delusion is short-lived, but remorse lasts a long time.
My grandpa is under the delusion that we're still at war.
A human being is part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Life is a delusion.
Fadil's religious faith spun into delusion.
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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.
“Project Greenlight,” however, bore down on the soft underbelly of the movie business, focusing on the delusions and colossal blunders of first-time directors, seemingly selected as much for their unlovability as their talent.
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