Firm and fixed belief based on inadequate grounding.
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However, there should be no illusion: there are no press freedom implications.
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However, Bernanke suggested emerging market authorities are suffering from an optical illusion.
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And the interesting situation was that we managed to create the illusion.
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Of course, you could say that free will is an illusion anyway.
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And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion.
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I was one witness; the other was Arthur Ireton, the head game-keeper.
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It could be some kind of head game or something else entirely.
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With low expectations, you are playing a head game with yourself, trying to forestall disappointment.
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I mean, it's a head game, isn't it?
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What it said to them was that Clinton had lost more than a head game with Harpootlian.
(Psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary.
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Every point, every game, every four-yearly cycle of self-delusion brings fresh hope.
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As former victims of political delusion, these defectors claim a unique authority.
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The physician himself might perhaps in some cases share in the delusion.
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I almost hope Deke's right and this whole thing is a delusion.
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However, it wasn't bravado or delusion that led me to this conclusion.
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The most continuous experience has been unsuccessful in shaking this grave delusion.
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Angelic delusion; to think there is only one truth in the world.
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And, of course, paranoia drifts into delusion, chance conversations become an interrogation.
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Beware the so-called road map; it is a snare and a delusion.
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In 2005, a generation primed for action got the politics of delusion.
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It had been Fat's delusion for years that he could help people.
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Nearer and nearer the whimpering pack pressed; their delusion begins to dispel.
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The pretty way in which she asks favours carries out the delusion.
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In the meadow, Jeanne still laboured under the heroic delusion of victory.
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The delusion is over; from this hour I serve them no longer.
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Reality is the offender; delusion our treasure that we are robbed of.
