Word: delusional
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To kill time before it kills them, they play gin rummy. Weller entices Fonsia into what turns out to be almost a blood sport on the assumption that she is a neophyte. That proves to be a delusion. Over a period of weeks, she wins every game except one that...
While tragedy moves from sanity toward self-destruction, comedy moves from self-delusion toward preservative sanity. In his pride, the tragic hero overreaches human limits and dies. In his folly, the comic hero pounds his head against those limits, is brought to his senses and lives. It is difficult to...
Despite the perversions of Stalinism and its perpetuators in certain pseudo-socialistic nations, socialism has done more to improve the living conditions of the masses during the past century than the delusion of free enterprise or religion.
It will never cease to puzzle me how so many people can be so deceived for so long in spite of all evidence against their delusion. Even some parents of cult members will defend to the death the madmen who enslave their children's minds. Fortunately for me, God...
It may be a delusion to think 1 that the country is finished with what sused to be called Woodstock Nation. Pierre Joseph Proudhon warned about "the fecundity of the unexpected." The present comparative quiet probably will not last. Issues such as nuclear energy, the arms race (the neutron bomb...