Earlier this year Mr Rutte compared Mrs May to the dismembered knight in a British comedy sketch who deludedly insists his injuries are "but a scratch".
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Trump, one of the worst deal-makers in history, deludedly believes himself to be a great businessman who can secure better deals for the US through his posturing.
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In terms of cinematic comparison, this kind of vampire has the most in common with Nicolas Cage's unhinged literary agent in Vampire's Kiss: spiralling while deludedly believing themselves to be something more than what they are, and making their employees' lives a living hell.
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In "A Christmas Carol in Harlem," a new adaptation of the Dickens novella presented by the Classical Theater of Harlem and City College Center for the Arts, Scrooge is a contemporary tightwad of a deludedly selfish variety — the kind of guy who thinks he owes his material success to no one but himself, so would never dream of helping anyone out.
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Nell urges him to run for political office. Recognizing that Nell and John still love each other, Susanna sacrifices herself and deludedly enters the nearby swamp in the middle of the night to find the legendary raintree. Four-year-old Jimmy follows her. The search party eventually finds her body.
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Vera realizes what's happened and yells for Burt to leave, saying she'll get a restraining order. Burt leaves calmly and, as he drives away in his car holding the ashtray, he is deludedly positive that in a few weeks they'll have a "serious talk" and get back together. The manuscript version titled "Pie" appears in Beginners (2009).
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Molly is an alcoholic woman living in Southern California. She is obsessed with television, and suffering from sexual repression stemming from the molestation she experienced by her sea captain father, who was lost at sea during her childhood. Her sister, Cathy, is candid about her disgust for their father, but Molly deludedly tells romanticized stories about him to her nephews, Tadd and Tripoli. Molly departs for her shift as a bartender at a seaside tavern run by a man named Long John.
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As a consequence of reading too many works on "Magick, the Black-Art, Daemoniacks, Conjurers, Witches," etc., the title character deludedly believes that he is a werewolf, that his birth date suggests he will be successful at romance, that others around him are demons, and so on. Much as in Mital, annotations reveal the original sources in which similarly fanciful material had been presented as non-fiction. In Gomgam, ou l'Homme prodigieux transporté dans l'air, sur la terre et sous les eaux (1711), Bordelon satirizes vacuous pedantry and learning only from books.
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It takes Forrest Taft, a specialist in dealing with oil drilling-related fires, to extinguish the fire. Taft refuses to believe Hugh's story of faulty equipment at first, but later discovers that it is true after accessing the company's computer records and finding that the next shipments of new, adequate equipment have been delayed way past the deadline. Michael Jennings, the ruthless CEO of Aegis, deludedly believes that Hugh's carelessness is to blame for the rig fire and, after discovering his efforts to alert the EPA about the use of substandard equipment, arranges for him to be ‘dealt with’ by his henchmen MacGruder and Otto. Jennings is alerted to Taft's activities and orders that Taft be eliminated as well.
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To all these he contrasts the Christian agape, unconditional or "conscious love," a phrase he has taken from the teachings of Gurdjieff.Gurdjieff, G.I. All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1950, 361. Agape, in Smoley's view, comes from a recognition of "the I that is we"—a realization that the true "I" of the individual is at core identical to the "I" of all other humans and indeed all other beings: > The "love of the world," with its accounts, transactions, and agendas, is > the love of Adam in his fallen state, in which each cell of his body > imagines that it is ... isolated and supreme and so finds itself fighting > for position with so many other beings who deludedly believe the same thing.
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