| 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. |
| 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. |
| Yet somehow he forgot all the truths of his younger days and bought into the self-delusions spawned from his megalomania. |
| The evasions, certainties and self-delusions suggest a clinical condition which would normally bring running the men in white coats. |
| Indeed, the character of Julien, with all his hissy fits and self-delusions, is hardly the picture-perfect beau. |
