Word: delusionals
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Forget cuddling koalas or trekking in the outback. When your travels next take you Down Under, do something far more Australian?go gambling instead. The Australian love of punting often surprises first-time visitors who labor under the touching delusion that locals spend all their leisure time outdoors and not...
Halevi talked a good deal about what he called the self-delusion of Israelis during the peace talks—and said that he, too, harbored false hopes.
In most other recent novels about a young woman's epiphanies--Ron Hansen's stately Mariette in Ecstasy, Mark Salzman's piercing Lying Awake--the story turns upon the riddle of where revelation ends and delusion begins. Guterson's Our Lady of the Forest (Knopf; 323 pages) leaves such questions...
FM: You said last month that if you could break 10 percent in the polls, you would pour resources into the campaign. What have those poll numbers been?Larry Flynt: Our internal polling shows that we are continuing to poll in the single digits. To spend a huge amount of...
Heard the one about the storming of the Bastille? Apparently, one of the last prisoners in the famous royal jail suffered from the delusion that he was Julius Caesar. Picture this momentous turning point of the French Revolution, punctuated by "possibly the greatest anticlimax in all history ... a decrepit old...