Word: delusional
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Even so, the sheer size of the consumer debt burden remains a threat to the health of the economy. "The whole idea of stretching out debt maturities to provide a soft landing is a snare and a delusion," contends economist A. Gary Shilling. "When you go into default, the total...
Boy meets girl served for a half-century as sufficient plot for virtually every Broadway musical. Then came a couple of decades of boy meets exotic locale, boy meets social dilemma, boy meets religious destiny, and boy meets his literary creator -- not to mention similarly unromantic encounters among personified animals...
What distinguishes Saddam from the rulers of other lands is that he is not content merely to "be" President. He has a vision -- some would say a delusion -- of grandeur for himself and for Iraq, but the only ways he knows to pursue the dream are to kill and bully...
In States of Desire, his 1980 travel book, White set out "to suggest the enormous range of gay life to straight and gay people." William Burroughs said, "In Edmund White we may have found our gay Tocqueville." But the book had its critics as well. In a blistering review in...
Those who suggest that the solution to black problems lies in the minds and wills of blacks are always accused of blaming the victims. But that is a futile line. Forget blame. Presumably, black America long since abandoned the delusion (if it ever harbored it) that white America was going...