Voorbeelden van self-delusion

• It needs also to be added that there is a large element of self-delusion.

• The scale of self-delusion in relation to historic voting alignments is noteworthy indeed.

• But that does not mean we must inevitably fall prey to blatant self-delusion.

• Anything else is simply a form of self-delusion resting on values derived from a different, and inappropriate, part of the lifecourse.

• First, it seemed to me that his speech again showed all the spasms of self-delusion and complacency to which we have become so accustomed.

• Those who argue that the pound should be revalued are indulging in an exercise of self-delusion on a grand scale.

• In referring to the claims made by internationalists he spoke of "sentimentality and self-delusion".

• The self-delusion in question is that we think we have succeeded in setting up the internal market.

• It is difficult to imagine such a process of self-delusion and mental obliquity.

• Is it an attempt at self-delusion, a pretence that inflation has not taken place since the war?

• I think that there is some deception and self-delusion in the matter.

• It was nothing of the sort; that summit was an exercise in self-delusion.

• We must remember that it is the credibility outside that matters and not the self-delusion in which we engage inside.

• In the hands of an ambitious politician, it gives rise to self-delusion, followed by deceit, ending up in catastrophe.

• I always took the view that to do so was dangerous self-delusion.