| So you could easily run away with the delusion that all would be sweetness and light come the launch. |
| An arms race is in progress, compounded, as are all arms races, by vanity and delusion. |
| Similar attempts to explain lycanthropy as a delusion rooted in illness have been repeated throughout the twentieth century. |
| This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. |
| In life, the impulse toward a simple stripping down to some bare truth is either delusion, hubris, or the reductionist's dust. |
| The hope that irrational people will act rationally is a perpetual delusion of the level-headed. |
