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“At a certain point, your deliriousness kicks in, and you're just going to go for it. Whatever.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2019

So it’s only natural that the hit that captures the deliriousness of their first love would be enshrined in America’s memory forever.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2018

But Krasznahorkai constantly pushes beyond the expected, escalating everything to the brink of deliriousness with an absurd list of 20 banks.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2018

Poole looked at him open-eyed as if expecting to see him suffering from a little deliriousness again; but as no sign was visible he merely said quietly— “My father’s.”

From Fitz the Filibuster by Piffard, Harold

His devotion to the manager, who has given him the part, for a time approaches deliriousness.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton