Sentences with delusion
de·lu·sion
D d - I was under the delusion that he intended to marry me.
- This was not optimism, it was delusion.
- Reluctant Heroes is filled with potent incitements, breach of faith, delusion, snappy dialogue, an enthusiastically focused yarn.
- One common delusion about keeping fish in an aquarium is that all you have to do is set up your aquarium with nice decoration.
- He has delusions of grandeur
- delusions of grandeur.
- Maybe this illusion is really more of a delusion, but it sure is popular.
- Let's overcome delusion by holding on to this one thought.
- A paranoid delusion.
- Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.
- Says the ostrich with its head buried in the grounds of delusion promoted by that bloody vulture Shimon Peres.
- Delusion implies belief in something that is contrary to fact or reality, resulting from deception, a misconception, or a mental disorder [to have delusions of grandeur]; illusion suggests the false perception or interpretation of something that has objective existence [perspective in drawing gives the illusion of depth]; hallucination implies the apparent perception, in nervous or mental disorder, of something external that is actually not present; , mirage refers to an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, and, in figurative use, implies an unrealizable hope or aspiration