Similar words: self-deceptive, deception, self-perception, self-destruction, self-determination, reception, receptionist, reception desk. Meaning: n. a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it.
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(1) Human beings have an infinite capacity for self-deception.
(2) What we call self-deception in others often proves liberating in our-selves!
(3) Perhaps he was engaging in self-deception to block out the troubling facts.
(4) But for every self-deception there is a moment when reality bites.
(5) Was it self-deception or did she really feel warm to his touch?
(6) Abusive lovers, self-deception and compulsive honesty create a droll litany over exquisite music.
(7) But Anne Edwards was not given to self-deception and she knew what she was feeling.
(8) I guess the whole thing is the biggest self-deception there is.
(9) Let up then beware of self-deception.
(10) The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
(11) Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.
(12) Are human beings especially prone to self-deception?
(13) Perhaps Europe will stumble down this road of self-deception and force its domestic investors to follow suit.
(14) See V.S. Ramachandran, The evolutionary biology of self-deception, laughter, dreaming and depression: some clues from anosognosia, Medical Hypotheses, November 1996, 47(5):347-62.
(15) Humanity gently found "self-" in hell lane and self-deception. The self-deception is that the works will show to readers that the human self-denial and self-contradiction.
(16) Still curious about the nature of self-deception, denial and neglect, I called V.S. Ramachandran, a legendary neuroscientist at the University of California – San Diego and an expert on anosognosia.
(17) The self-deception is evidently a falsehood, because it is a dissimulation of man's complete liberty of commitment.
(18) Facing the threat of self-deception, what can man do?The article is to arouse people to care about and study the lonely destiny of man.
(19) We each have an infinite capacity for self-deception, and here was mine.
(20) His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all. Sentencedict.com
(21) What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot
(22) But the political and ideological pressures that foster this particular kind of self-deception are stronger than I can remember.
(23) His observations on the burgeoning jazz scene are quite laughable, and typically shot through with self-deception.
(24) If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. Marcus Aurelius
(25) This experiment is neat because it shows the different gradations of self-deception, all the way up to its purest form, in which people manage to trick themselves hook, line and sinker.
(26) It will have to tell Kim that he must earn its support. It is in China's interest to do so; to pretend that the status quo is stable is self-deception.
(27) Their actions leave open the further question: when does out-and-out prevarication shade off into self-deception and denial?
(28) You all do not stay, I again why a self-deception again.
(29) Face and peeled off its mask after they reveal our hearts very afraid of meeting light flaw, sometimes it will evolve into self-deception, even inadvertently hurt other people we have.
(30) Resentment at US power is being replaced by contempt, as the impotence and self-deception of the American political class in the face of the country's problems become increasingly evident.
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