Word: delusional
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Personalizing makes it seem more manageable. Bin Laden may be out of reach right now, safe in the care of Afghanistan's Taliban rulers. But by making him the root of the problem, we hold out the possibility that his ultimate removal from the scene will make the world safe...
Walters says this is a delusion. He believes people who advocate this are purposefully ignoring the long-term impact of drug addiction on some individuals. In fact, Walters will point out, as we?ve seen in the case of Robert Downey Jr., some addicts cannot get off drugs at any...
Existence in our cold universe requires constant vigilance, a continual battle against entropy, not warm words and the delusion that we are somehow "different." Contrary to the inaugural ramblings of George W., no angel is directing this whirlwind of a universe. The sooner we admit that no magical blanket, no...
Of course writers often have the delusion that their work will save the world. Maybe it will not, but weighing positives and negatives, writers probably have a better record on that score than politicians do. In any case, I would rather read Montaigne than listen to either Gore or Bush...
The persistence of the Gore legal team is testament to either incredible faith or unbelievable delusion. Despite a sequence of setbacks, the Democratic attorneys continue to tear through the Florida legal system, hoping (somehow, somewhere) to find a judge sympathetic to their cause. After Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders...