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It seemed rather optimistic, perhaps even self-deluding.
Fire returns to the Potteries' heart Ian Jack 2010
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Never in our experience as pollsters can we recall such self-deluding misconstruction of survey data.
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“So, do you think the people who say these things about him are being malicious or self-deluding or what?”
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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After that cheap snub, I hope to hear less self-deluding babble from Labour leaders about the Windsors being "above politics".
Prepare for the reign of Charles the Meddler | Nick Cohen 2011
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Intellectuals and academics (especially) seem now to becoming an outlier, embittered and negative, and (in an elaborate way, by their distorted emphasis) both dishonest and self-deluding.
Hayek and Anti-capitalist Intellectuals, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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“So, do you think the people who say these things about him are being malicious or self-deluding or what?”
O: A Presidential Novel Anonymous 2011
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This self-deluding scientist will come to embody just about everything that has brought about the climate-change crisis in the first place: greed, heedlessness and a willful refusal to think about consequences or the future.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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This self-deluding scientist will come to embody just about everything that has brought about the climate-change crisis in the first place: greed, heedlessness and a willful refusal to think about consequences or the future.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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This self-deluding scientist will come to embody just about everything that has brought about the climate-change crisis in the first place: greed, heedlessness and a willful refusal to think about consequences or the future.
Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's "Solar": And What That Says About the Cultural Establishment Anis Shivani 2010
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My own belief is that any character reveals who he or she is through acts, words, and self-observations (which may be accurate or self-deluding, if not both).
July « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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