Word: delusionment
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Like most people who gamble, I am very bad at it. But I continue to do it, owing to a delusion that I am awesome at everything and therefore can't possibly lose. Gambling for men isn't about winning money but about boosting our self-esteem by proving that...
“UBS is one of the world’s leading investment banks,” a recent Crimson editorial informs its readers, “it manages assets worth well over $2 trillion.” And if those numbers do not render you speechless, another of...
"I don't become characters," says Gosling. "They're all me." His latest screen self is a Midwestern recluse named Lars who orders a sex doll on the Internet and suffers from a delusion that the doll is his real girlfriend. On the advice of a therapist (Patricia Clarkson), Lars...
There's a scene in Lars and the Real Girl in which Lars' brother (Paul Schneider) confronts Lars about his delusion, telling him that Bianca is not a real person but a big plastic thing. Lars can't or won't hear him. For the audience his disbelief is a...
Strengthening the Administration's case for a strike on Iran, there's a belief among neo-cons that the IRGC is the one obstacle to a democratic and friendly Iran. They believe that if we were to get rid of the IRGC, the clerics would fall, and our thirty-years...