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But let not America wrap herself up in delusive hope and suppose the business done.

About her son, however, she has spent a half century nurturing the delusive hope that he might actually be alive.

Clearly any suspicion, combining such contradictions, must need be delusive.

It was difficult, looking at the tools, to remember that they were simply items in an expensive and delusive form of theater.

What then, in sober earnest, were the delusive treasures of the chest?

It might explain and relieve much, though perhaps the thing was no more than the delusive aftermath of an earlier shock.

How often must we repeat this costly, delusive ritual in the name of decency?

It was an event out of the 50's, or from a time even further back, a period of delusive innocence.

What can such delusive flattery lead to, but vanity and folly?

At every port the novel sights Charm for an hour - delusive bliss.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

"She was your fondest Hope, but a delusive one."

"I warned you that the idyllic atmosphere is delusive."

The 7th consciousness of delusive discrimination becomes transformed into the "equality wisdom".

There is something both appealingly loyal and disturbingly delusive about this response.

The idea of having navies for the protection of commerce is delusive.

This incident shows how the delusive search for "balance" on television leads to self-censorship.

Of course, the easy knowing way in which he inferred startling sexual prowess might be delusive.

This was done in a search for elusive - perhaps delusive - certainty as to the exact count of six million votes.

That place turns out to be elusive, indeed delusive, but "quest" accurately describes her experience as both daughter and writer.

The apparent symmetry of this arrangement was rapidly shown to be superficial and delusive.

Let me now as from an eminence survey the world stripped of all its false delusive charms.

Lured by the delusive hope these words awakened, Pietro went on.

After a delusive first experience in a top club (Milan, season 1976-77), he coached in lower series.

Indeed, for all I knew, he might be using others of his girls in these same cruel and delusory labors.

I needed that delusory space to grow in.

She was also conducted to psychiatrists and sexologist due to her delusory as a guy.

Unless desirability is held to be always delusory, and the sole basis for the hope of amendment.

Her talk was all delusory, of course.

Of course human freedoms are imperfect and delusory.

Coronado had crossed it in his delusory wanderings, bewildered by its scale.

Symbols hold the mind to truth but are not themselves the truth, hence it is delusory to borrow them.

That duly grumbled, delicious, delusory anticipation can still reign.

Both expectations were delusory.

She began becoming delusory.

You are being delusory!

"Is this acceptance supremely pragmatic or supremely delusory?"

"I don't say they're delusory.

A search of her lodgings yielded a series of bizarre and clearly delusory letters in which she claimed to be the rightful heir to the throne.

It has the delusory precision of Joe McCarthy's claim that he had the names of 155 or 163 Communists in the Government.

A well-regarded science fiction novelist argues for the genre's literary merits while blaming it for encouraging delusory popular fantasies and wacko religious cults.

Even the reformers' laudable efforts to control the predations of the robber barons were raveled up in delusory fears of a "secret conspiratorial plutocracy."

Kylesa formed in Savannah in 2001, taking their name from "kilesa mara", a Buddhist term denoting delusory mental states.

Their unlikely ambitions, and their delusory dreams of wig-vending glory, are no crazier, and certainly much more benign, than the zeal and suspicion that surround them.

His wife (Stina Ekblad), a symbol of marital devotion, is swept away by her own delusory dreams in which her husband has a satanic saintliness.

And Ieuan ab Ifor would simply have to resign himself to losing a delusory image of a submissive wife, a creature Heledd could never become.

That is the encouragement, in Americans, of the delusory belief that military power can solve the world's problems - and that the United States can impose unilateral solutions.

"I have seemed to notice such things," I said, "but I was drugged in my apartment, Obviously such sensations are delusory, merely the effects of that drug."