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It could not be that the grand role of the artiste is a desperately self-delusional shell around the soft and gooey centre of a very small and weak ego, all too easily hurt by even the mildest and most unconcerned critique.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Tribal Council: Tyrone's wildly self-delusional statement about the Blindfold Challenge: Today we went with our plan.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Acme Blindfolds & Blindsides. Tallulah Morehead 2010
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A recent front-page editorial in the Beijing Daily, an organ of the city's party committee, declared that most people in the Middle East were unhappy with the protests in their countries, which were a "self-delusional ruckus" orchestrated by a small minority.
Is China Next? Francis Fukuyama 2011
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Reason vs Passion: Maieutic fiction begins in the abjection of the “self-delusional” aspects of romance by which the Rationalist/Realist/realist novel is, in part, constructed.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Meanwhile, Glenn Beck will be teaching tea baggers how to be as skeevy, racist and self-delusional as possible.
Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated) 2010
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It is always about imposing their preferences on others, and it is self-delusional to expect otherwise.
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We all take turns whacking the Brits but it's a self-delusional lie to pretend any of us are prepared to cede prerogatives of self-governance to foreign bureaucrats.
What Merkel Is Thinking Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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He was realistic enough about his team's potential to adopt the same strategy this year but the typically self-delusional board set more glamorous targets.
Köln in meltdown as Zvonimir Soldo is shown the door Raphael Honigstein 2010
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It could not be that the grand role of the artiste is a desperately self-delusional shell around the soft and gooey centre of a very small and weak ego, all too easily hurt by even the mildest and most unconcerned critique.
How Not to be a Writer Hal Duncan 2009
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Glenn Beck will be teaching tea baggers how to be as skeevy, racist and self-delusional as possible.
Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated) 2010
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