Search Details

Word: delusionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Like most egotists, Signorile keeps breaking out in rashes of infantilism. It gives his writing a reckless charm. It also preserves the delusion that he can do nasty things to people for their own good.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning Out The Closets | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

Did the world really act as fast as possible to meet the threat? The answer, unfortunately, is no. The eventual rescue operation was the last chapter in a long saga of confusion, wishful thinking, indecision and delay. For nearly a decade before the 1987 ozone treaty, nations were warned of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Lost the Ozone? | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

But Feldstein has vocal critics, too, according to Warsh. "Lester Thurow, who himself was a candidate for the presidency of the Bureau in 1977, noting Feldstein's claim that a maharajah, receiving reports from five blind men feeling an elephant, could piece together an accurate picture, tartly compared Feldstein to...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Up Close and Personal With Great Economists | 4/8/1993 | See Source »

Getting to this point logically is harder than it sounds. The love-as- cultural-delusion argument has long seemed unassailable. What actually accounts for the emotion, according to this scenario, is that people long ago made the mistake of taking fanciful literary tropes seriously. Ovid's Ars Amatoria is often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is LOVE? | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

Choi raises the obvious criticism that ethnic and gender studies tend to "institutionalize...their own marginalization," but no one who has perused the Courses of Instruction searching for a course in ethnic studies could remain under the delusion that he or she is studying something mainstream. Choi's "over 130...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Multicultural Mistakes | 2/6/1993 | See Source »

Previous | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | Next