Word: delusional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The X factor, the essential condition for these love stories--love stories only by rather loose definition--is fantasy: half-conscious, almost conspiratorial self-delusion. In the first play, Tennessee Williams's slight but appealing This Property is Condemned, Miss DeMott's fantasy life takes the whole stage. For a...
I was greatly relieved to read your article "The Consumer Economy," because since Christmas morning, I have had the disturbing delusion that I was supporting the U.S. economy all by myself.
Half-Measures. The proposals disclosed little sense of realism. A broadened, "elephant" Cabinet would more than likely bog down in the same sort of bickering and flatulent debate that plagued Adoula's ill-fated government. There are few rebel prisoners untainted by the Simba massacres; in fact, there are...
But discovery comes neither easily nor early. In the novel-ending bullfight scene, Thornhill perceives that man is as mesmerized by delusion as is the bull by the cape. At the moment of revelation-when he first sees behind the cloth of illusion-the sword is halfway home.
Other Joseph-types fantasize that the essentially impotent positions they hold are repositories of actual power (sometimes called the HCUA Delusion), or fool themselves into thinking that making a great deal of term-time money--and cultivating a middle-aged brusqueness towards less affluent classmates--is an equivalent substitute for...