delusions
- plural of delusion.
Example Sentences
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Delusions often seem totally plausible, even though they are simultaneously ludicrous.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023
In “A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse,” Victoria Shepherd takes us back hundreds of years to investigate extraordinary and well-documented cases of delusion.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2022
Two books to prime for my next novel: Eric Hoffer’s “The True Believer” and Charles Mackay’s “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.”
From New York Times • May 27, 2021
Delusions of grandeur, delusions of superiority, delusions of invincibility — we're all stocked up on those in the land of the free and home of the health insurance deductible.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2020
We became curious about the real Children’s Crusade, so O’Hare looked it up in a book he had, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
