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How to use self-delusion in a sentence

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For all their weakness, cowardice, and self-delusion, these men strike an unexpected, sympathetic chord.
These, and other gems of paranoia and self-delusion will no doubt surface over the next month.
There is nothing wrong with courtesy but if it is made into an industry or profession it carries the danger of hypocrisy or self-delusion.
Take a look at his positions, and marvel at this man, who has never done anything but run for office, and his capacity for self-delusion.
His self-delusion is so complete he regards this as a principle, instead of a symptom of his own narcissism.
Either way, the net effect is to tilt the playing field further and further towards self-delusion.
Enthusiasm and dedication can easily turn to self-delusion and, once scientific rigour is relaxed, error and confusion are almost inevitable.
My theory is that many chiefs are victims of self-delusion, their own double-speak.
Unfortunately, when these rules are broken there is a real danger that an ingenuous error will evolve from self-delusion to fraud.
When anybody calls their bluff and punctures this self-delusion, they can only cope by insulting and vilifying their critics.
It would therefore be self-delusion to claim that we have greater democratic legitimacy than the directly elected European Parliament.
Campaigns can often be breeding grounds for confidence bordering on self-delusion.
Insofar as this is self-delusion rather than outright deceit, he is a Pollyanna.
The act of observation itself is an antidote to self-delusion, teaching that things are as they are, and not as we would prefer them to be.
We MEPs of the Greek Communist Party abstained from the vote, because we refuse to participate in the self-delusion as to the character of the?
In the glow of unearned good repute, people are apt to fall prey to self-delusion, and think that they can get away with anything.
The leader of the Group of the Greens said that Europe's claim to be a leader on climate change is self-delusion.
Some participants may react to 'hopeful talk' with scorn: they may see it as self-delusion, unrealistic, or lying to oneself.
It means knowing and accepting the truth about ourselves, being honest with ourselves, being free of pretension and self-delusion.
Further, self-centeredness, self-consciousness, and self-contradiction are not wholly reducible to self-delusion in these narratives.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If it was only a self-delusion, an hallucination, he told himself that he would be content.
Ultimate success depended solely on the revolutionary self-delusion which credited Razumov with a mysterious complicity in the Haldin affair.
Any other reason or excuse she used was a sham, a self-delusion.
It is a self-delusion to attempt to derive monachism from the East.
You were victimised by self-delusion when I first met you, at the time you thought you had discovered perpetual motion.
Apply the contemptible system of self-delusion which my confession has revealed, to that holiday arrangement for a tour in the north which has astonished and annoyed you.
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