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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

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

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