Word: delusional
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"Chamberlain's capacity for self-delusion is a national danger," fumed the Manchester Guardian. "If Parliament does its duty next week, perhaps even Mr. Chamberlain may be brought to understand that we cannot and will not go on in this way." Reports that naval chiefs had insisted upon an...
Dr. Hrdlicka was still not ready to give up. "It's a delusion," exclaimed he. "It does not amount to a scientific demonstration. There are many things that look like [sic] and many things that do not look like, but there is no proof. The geology of the earth...
Your editorial of Saturday scoffing at the Committee for Academic Freedom to be sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa is a native piece of self-delusion. At the present time, there is more need than ever for the consolidation of all forces for the defense of civil liberties, within and without...
Then something happened to Dick Knight. One autumn Manhattan's stock-market collapsed; but it was not that. He began to drink hard, and kept it up for seven years; but it was not that either. It was a delusion of grandeur, he thought later, brought on by too...
Mr. Olum's letter to the Crimson has convinced me that any respect which he professes for the principles of free speech has been overshadowed by the delusion that he is Harvard's sole standard-bearer of American civil liberties.