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Example sentences for: delusion

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This suspicion may be a delusion or a self-delusion, but it nevertheless provides an excuse to vote against the resolution.
For another, a certain amount of bicameral delusion has seeped over from America.
So let us note: James Joyce's novel is Finnegans Wake (1939), not “Finnegan's,” E. M. Forster's is Howards End (1910) (another house name, by the way), not “Howard's,” and, a potential double delusion, Shakespeare's famous play is Love's Labour's Lost (1598), with two apostrophes.
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."