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Example sentences for: delusion

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The diasporan ideal depends on the delusion that Americans can reverse the cross-contamination of our cultures, our bloodlines, and our psyches--that if we dream hard enough, we might return to a prelapsarian state of pure identity.
The cover editorial argues that the president's popular support should not prevent impeachment, because it is merely a "momentary delusion" achieved through "effective demagoguery."
He discovered that his wife, 38, was discussing more than drywall with their married contractor, 40, when the pair was photographed by the Globe . The publication seems to have a sort of social consciousness about not letting celebrities suffer the delusion that they are happily married.
That's either a delusion of grandeur or an elevation of your own desire for satisfaction above the recipients' need for food.
Anyone laboring under the delusion that English is not an acquisitive language should be disabused by the following caption from an article about delicatessens that appeared in the Magazine Section of The Sunday Times [London], 7 January 1989: [“Foreignisms” are so set in the original.