And sometimes national coaches possess a deluded sense of their own importance. |
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You could watch this and think that he was deluded, and thought he really was taking out a bad guy. |
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I found it strange that for such a great news site you obviously have so many deluded readers! |
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If you think that is what is required to build a successful democracy then you're too deluded. |
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Beth believed those women were deluded, but nevertheless, she saw how intimacy between two people was never quite erased. |
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He's done some great things, but this doesn't alter the fact that he's a deluded egomaniac. |
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But if the Labour Party thinks the Tories' disarray is long-lasting, they are deluded. |
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Is it about the fundamentally deluded nature of human existence, or its perverse, incorrigible optimism? |
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This is not simply the story of a gentle, deluded old man whose attempts to expiate his guilt were poorly judged. |
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The producers are struggling to keep the show afloat, in a gesture that is either extraordinarily brave or catastrophically deluded. |
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Given Twelfth Night's tangled skein of interwoven plots and deluded lovers, there is plenty of comic potential. |
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He seemed only a poor clod like those around him, deluded by a childish theology. |
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I'm not flattering myself with some deluded belief of self-importance, if things get out of hand I'll be the one getting really upset. |
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Disgusted, frustrated and utterly deluded about what's going on here, we run for the comforting embrace of sweeties and calorie-laden treats. |
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I strongly suspect he is not deluded, but he is definitely a brave, or at least a courageous, man. |
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Many steel execs thought Mittal was deluded as they watched him snap up distressed mills from Trinidad to Kazakhstan. |
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I don't mean the big-name celebrities, the deluded orchestrators behind it all. |
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No longer the little girl, she's become a really interestingly deluded old lady. |
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He was the greatest knight in the world and a deluded Spanish gentleman to precisely the same degree. |
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These poor deluded racists seem to think that pathologies are the natural course of events for most people. |
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But let's not compound our losses with deluded bombast about what we have to gain. |
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But we should not be deluded into thinking that we have struck a blow against terrorism. |
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I'm always amazed that otherwise intelligent people are deluded into believing its truth. |
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It is better than a deluded belief in a non-existent benignity amongst our global neighbors. |
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Only the seriously deluded could believe that a burger and chips dinner will be less cholesterol-packed if you round it off with a small satsuma. |
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But we poor deluded souls keep colouring our hair in the wildest and most atrocious colours possible. |
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It is a flophouse for deluded officers who believe in the ability to defeat the resistance. |
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Anybody who thinks they could endure the horrible golf he went through without losing their head occasionally is deluded. |
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Out of over 30 cousins on one side alone, there are few renegades, and any sort of self-reliance is seen as catastrophic, or worse, deluded. |
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You're deluded if you think your precious green plants are better at converting sunlight into energy. |
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We seem to be deluded that we're farmhands who needed to fuel up to bring in the harvest by hand, but instead we go home and couch-surf in front of the idiot box! |
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She's vaguely deluded, thinking the viewers see her as funny and cute. |
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But there were other times when he deluded himself, and I couldn't stand to let him run off at the mouth like that. |
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While obviously not as cartoonish as the deluded leaders in The Office, du Pont seemed to stretch credulity at times. |
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From the abortion-clinic picketer to the suicide bomber, its disciples are the deadly and the deluded. |
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She does not look at all like the simple shepherdess anymore, an image that we are deluded with by the church. |
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The propaganda that says there is no fat in this budget, not one loonie that can be cut, is simply the pipe dream of a deluded mind. |
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However globalism is deluded in believing that economics is the motor behind civilisation. |
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We cannot believe, on the basis of a deluded policy, that Turkey is today already so far on the way to being granted candidate status. |
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The guys who were lucky enough to win in that election, who deluded the Canadian public, have not kept their promises. |
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We are a critical audience, not easily deluded, and we are not satisfied with colourless writing about vital subjects. |
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It had to be suffered and endured by rote learning and sing-songy renditions of pappy rhymes or the impenetrable stanzas of a tortured and deluded soul. |
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Is anybody interested in what these young, deluded fools have got to say? |
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You are seriously deluded if you think principle and vision win elections. |
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Yet many proponents of universal suffrage were just as deluded, in their own way, as the Adullamites who clung to their rotten boroughs as if civilisation depended on them. |
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All but in the fevered dreams of power mad politicians and their deluded followers is a world without immigration possible. |
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I thought, since we already went through riot grrrl in the early '90s, that women playing in bands, especially punk bands, had a lot more freedom, but I was sadly deluded. |
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In tropic Thunder, he was a hopelessly deluded movie star in search of an Oscar. |
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We should have devotion towards the unmistaken natural state, in the sense of sincerely appreciating that which is truly unmistaken, unconfused, never deluded. |
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But if Othello dies a deluded and confused figure, would that not rob him of all dignity and nobility, turning him into the pitiful victim of a vicious, hostile society? |
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On the other side are the easily deluded, the ones who believe that a hit single or a television spot circumvents money to actually purchase happiness. |
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We deluded ourselves with a false sense of security that if we were based in the capital and connected to a large media institution, we would be above it all. |
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That quote goes to show how deluded and out of touch these people are. |
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It's not healthy for you to leave part of your life hidden away, and it's not conducive to happiness as a couple for one partner to be deluded about the true nature of the other. |
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The man is a fraud and his voters are deluded. |
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Our minds might pretend to be sovereign and to see our bodies as they really are, but the truth is that we are all deluded, and never more so than when in denial about this or that shape-shifting malady. |
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If the philosophy of the urban booster in the Prairie West was surcharged with an optimism that sometimes resulted in self-deception, the supporters of the Grouard project were wholly deluded. |
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He knows, but he wants them both to open themselves to him and, by verbalising their sadness and deluded hopes, help them to be aware of their problem and the real reason for their anxiety. |
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Let no one be deluded that civilization is inviolate in Canada. |
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Its mental effect is like a beautiful parody of myself and serves to place the deluded devotees in touch with the scroll of the astral light, which is the reflection of the akashic records. |
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Doctor of Science Mikhail Rastopshin published in the mass media a range of articles where he showed that engineers of Soviet tanks deluded the government by actually falsifying the test results. |
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So overtly, however, does it violate the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, with which we are deluded every day, that someone in the Council will, I hope, be able to stop it in its tracks. |
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I saw her no longer as the deluder of Aunt Jane, but as herself the deluded. |
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The movement deluded itself about its non-hierarchical nature. |
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In the novella, however, Cramer proves as deluded a romantic as any hero in one of Scott's novels. |
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There are the zeks, the survivors of the gulags, some honest about their experiences, others still deluded or traumatised decades later. |
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Incompetence and a vacuum of political will fed into a situation where the most zealous of deluded war hawks had the final say. |
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But you are deluded by the affections caused by blood relations. |
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Protest from a bunch of deluded dog-lovers, lamebrains who tell you their Rottweiler is 'only playing' when he's got you by the throat. |
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While refusing to be deluded by any of the self-justifications of the powers-that-be, they attempt to contribute to the good of the society in which God has placed them. |
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On the other hand, we don't have that Pinocchio test, as I said, that would allow us to say these are the sincere but deluded, these are true ones, or these are the out-and-out charlatans who are faking. |
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If you are deluded by overprice, your conclusion will be wrong. |
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One of the biggest dangers which we face is that posed by cranks, crackpots, the mentally deluded, and those who think they are Cleopatra or some such similar reincarnation. |
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The other natives of Albert Square were equally deluded, either that or the average memory span on the manor must fall shy of 12 months. |
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I am not enamoured of this transient youth in which short-lived pleasure is quickly followed by long-lasting suffering, and deluded by which man regards the changing to be changeless. |
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The young, who were campaigning for disarmament and peace, celebrating 'flower power' and proclaiming 'make love not war', were deluded and drunk, blind to the dark realities of the Cold War. |
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Either choice involves unavoidable risks: on the one hand the risk of being importantly deluded and on the other the risk of missing a limitlessly valuable truth. |
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In other words, do we stay deluded, decide to do nothing and believe that there is no way to change anything, or do we take the steps to bring about change? |
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If some far-sighted person fifteen years ago had written out the agenda for this European Council, as it now is, complete with the reunification of Europe, he would have been thought to be deluded! |
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Thus are deluded those who are wont to reject the Signs of Allah. |
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The Prime Minister should not deluded by the pleasantries from Jean-Claude Juncker after a dinner of spring salad, pork belly and lime bavarois at Chequers. |
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But he's mildly hypothermic and he's slightly deluded with the champagne. |
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Thus hath he deluded many Nations in his Augurial and Extispicious inventions, from casual and uncontrived contingencies divining events succeeding. |
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But we are never deluded for a moment that the frames enclose and commemorate anything other than the rage of silence and a gnawingly present absence. |
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I waited for him to take it up, to unravel once again his tale of plotting statesmen and deluded public, his great joke, his private toe hold on the world. |
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And deluded Jan believing her arm-wrestling victories were real. |
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