Word: delusionally
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If only it had a patent lawyer on it too. The multitool market has been flooded with knock-offs, leaving loyal Leatherman owners to wonder, Is the original still the best? To find out, I put four high-end, fully loaded multitools through their paces: the Leatherman Wave ($99), the...
“We pray for the wisdom to fight for peace without false hope, without self-delusion,” he said. “We come together to revive our spirits and to renew the human bonds which nurture.”
In his commentary "Awfully Ordinary," about how bin Laden looked on the tape, Lance Morrow called him "the John Gotti of jihad" for his delusion of self-importance [ESSAY, Dec. 24]. I couldn't help thinking of another comparison: Charles Manson. Both bin Laden and Manson collected mentally unstable, fringe...
Of course, at this moment the Winners are too busy sleeping in public places to be called on to set an example, to demonstrate how lethargic delusion always leads to quality work.
The syndrome also causes a persistent and often unconscious use of certain buzzwords to describe Harvard students. Like Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, with his constant repetition of “Wopner…Wopner time…Wopner’s on,” a victim of the...