Word: delusionally
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> "I am myself convinced that the idea of justice and law is more universal, more readily understood than is the concept of political liberty. As we proceed, we will be able to show how justice must make room for liberty and how liberty lives only by and through the law...
At the mother-in-law's exit, the distraught son-in-law appears and explains that the old lady is mad. Her daughter died four years before, and the woman kept in the apartment is his second wife. He acts as he does to preserve the mother-in-law...
Sagan knows how to play with the nuances of worldly boredom and the despairing thrusts of passion. Of her seven novels, La Chamade is one of the best and as perceptive as Bonjour, Tristesse. She has added another documentation to her reputation as a precise miniaturist who lucidly fosters a...
But banking and money do not really mean that much to Francis. Raised in a Manhattan orphanage with nary a clue to the identity of his parents, he has developed a delusion that he is the unacknowledged child of a British peer, entitled to the Order of the Garter, or...
While there is meticulous method in Francis Vollmer's madness, there is not nearly enough madness in the narrative methods of Richard Condon (The Manchurian Candidate). What the author intends is a black comedy on the peril of an obsessive delusion; what he achieves is a hybrid between bedroom...