Search Details

Word: delusional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

In a kaleidoscopic series of case histories, a gallery of probationers, ranging from the wicked to the underprivileged and mentally defective, are pictured in predicaments ranging from comedy to tragedy. A few of the excessive characters: a young hoodlum (Harry Fowler) and a delinquent teen-ager (Joan Collins) who fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 20, 1953 | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

"Christ saw on the cross that man, as he is, is always in revolt against God . . . But, while man's nature rages, God's Plan and God's Truth stand secure-as the stars in heaven stand above the earth. The notion that the age of Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop in the Front Line | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

Then the President turned to reassess the Korean war. He ignored the happy delusion that the Korean war, of itself, is somehow a "lesson" which has taught Communists the folly of aggression. Said he: "It is clearly a part of the same calculated assault that the aggressor is simultaneously pressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The State of the Union | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

"When it comes to security, I recollect that in the early Twenties we were mad for it. Furthermore, we were certain we would get it-a delusion to which the young today are too perceptive to attach themselves . . . Young people want answers to their questions about the meaning and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Generation in Transition | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

D. H. Lawrence said of it: "If it is the book of a demon, as ... contemporaries said, it is the book of a man demon, not of a mere poseur. And if some of it is caviar, at least it came out of the belly of a live fish." This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paranoid Pope | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Previous | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | Next