Example Sentences

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What “To Paradise” seems mainly to argue is that paradise is an absurd concept, exclusionary and dangerous and fatally self-deluding.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2022

Mendez creates a colorful portrait of a vigorous, self-deluding and rather amiable Fidel, blustering, thrumming his fingers impatiently and, in one moment of exasperation, bathing his face in ice from a liquor cabinet.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2021

In a career spanning six decades, Beatty marshaled his booming voice, roly-poly physique, beady eyes and Cheshire-cat grin into an impressive range of characters: amiable, self-deluding, menacing, terrified, or a nuanced combination of the four.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2021

Wilhelmina Brady is the book’s most memorable character: self-involved, self-pitying, self-deluding and relentless.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2020

Many self-deluding souls set down their impatience with others' errors to a spirit of benevolence.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion