" You Are Not So Smart" is an investigation of self-delusion.
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If you believe otherwise, I admire your commitment to self-delusion.
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People are in general good at that sort of self-delusion.
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Call it self-delusion or naïveté; I considered these calculations strategic.
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There's not a word of self-delusion in Trump's three-minute speech.
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But inhabiting the extremes demands self-discipline that borders on self-delusion.
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For the English, the loss on Monday was a parody of self-delusion.
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Her first book, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, expands on that theme.
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Then again, charging enemy cannon requires a degree of self-delusion about your prospects.
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The very absurdity of this plan shows the depths of the GOP's self-delusion.
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"Some people are capable of self-delusion, and it's a powerful tool," Gurley said.
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However, the well-based opposition to self-pardons should not lead to self-delusion.
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Her splendid memoir is a vital reckoning with an industry awash in self-delusion.
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And yet the opposite of anger, apathy and self-delusion, is also the wrong answer.
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After a while this can result in collective self-delusion that this pretence is actual work.
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Although themes of memory and self-delusion run throughout his work, he ranges widely in form.
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Most people know, at least intellectually, that self-delusion is bad and self-insight is good.
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A meta-besotted, multilayered, impudent, lacerating exhibition that pricks pretense and self-delusion on every level.
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FOR reasons either of irrepressible optimism or self-delusion, François Hollande regularly claims to spot economic improvements.
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Instead, the next two weeks will test how deeply a nation can immerse itself in self-delusion.
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Mr. Met puts a smile on the face of this self-delusion, so common among baseball fans.
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Worse yet, the mismatch between our rhetoric and policy contributes to our own capacity for self-delusion.
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But Woodward writes that Dowd, who would resign soon afterward, "knew this was self-delusion, total bullshit."
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" She accused Mr. Duterte of being "unable to grasp truths beyond his myopic world of self-delusion.
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But it still has his distinctive voice, a mixture of straight-faced absurdity and broad, outsized self-delusion.
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Those who recognized the self-delusion and incompetence began referring to the Green Zone as the Emerald City.
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"West Covina," the first song we hear on the show, depicts Rebecca's dreams and capacity for self-delusion.
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It's become clear that his athletic genius is matched only by his capacity for self-sabotage and self-delusion.
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You were, as always, fighting the demons of self-delusion, reminding us of the need for change, for progress.
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On the way there, I finish the last chapter of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino.
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Self-delusion projected as philosophy makes for a nice sound bite, but it doesn't work when it's just empty talk.
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These entries say much more about the human capacity for self-delusion than they do about Donald Trump or America.
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There is a body for research from the 1980s that said little bit of self-delusion is a good thing.
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Even if you love taking risks and therefore ignore our point about insurance, you should protect yourself against self-delusion.
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Looks are everything It was Evans' penchant for appearances, or possibly self-delusion, that led to Juicero's counterproductive recycling program.
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" According to the Nobel Twitter feed, the themes with which Ishiguro is most associated are "memory, time, and self-delusion.
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You'll recognize all the familiar throes — exalted expectations and dashed hopes, disillusionment and embarrassing self-delusion — in fiction about work.
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This is because Arabists not only take on the cause of the Arabs, but also the Arabs' tendency for self-delusion.
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"In the depths of my self-delusion, I thought I could trick you into thinking it was wine," he told us.
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He's an embodiment of the industry's self-delusion and self-mythology, the kind of executive who invokes vision and bullies the help.
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The same capacity for wishful self-delusion must be what keeps us going to bistros that are nothing like anything in France.
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The nested stories are very much rooted in post-medieval Spain, but the pratfalls are timeless; self-delusion knows no cultural barriers.
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Yet, after three decades of Amtrak trips, I still genuinely enjoyed it, so I concluded that my romanticism wasn't entirely self-delusion.
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But to react this way is to recognize them, and therefore to be implicated their vanity, their duplicity and their self-delusion.
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Jung describes these are forces inside us – the light being the benevolent and the dark forces of greed, arrogance, self-delusion and hubris.
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The works of Ishiguro, who moved to Britain as a young child, often touch on memory, time and self-delusion, the Academy said.
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On "Atlanta," it's not technology that's the catalytic element, the intensifier of our predilection for self-delusion and misery—it's racism and poverty.
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The imagery is dreamlike, as if to suggest the self-delusion of the novel's real-life counterparts, Terese Svoboda writes in her review.
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The convenient self-delusion of the "neoliberal" decades was that you could strengthen both national democracy (including welfare-state capitalism) and transnational policymaking.
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I don't think I was alone in that self-delusion, which may explain why so-called "dissident feminists" were so popular in the '90s.
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It begins with a fatal error in 1964, survived on the willful self-delusion of people like Roy himself, and ended with Donald Trump.
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Love, when it comes up, is dismissed as fantasy, self-delusion, a capitalist plot leading to the procreation of ever more workers and consumers.
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Singing with earnest clarity, Father John Misty indicts selfishness, ignorance, distraction, vanity, politics, self-delusion, dogmatism, technocracy, God and, by no means least, himself.
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The most shocking thing about Bong's films might be their sincerity, the warm humanism that flickers through the chronicles of spite, sloth and self-delusion.
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This self-delusion occurs most profoundly in the times when I feel good, and wishfully make the assumption that I will never feel anxious again.
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Which brings us to Jerusalem, and the piety that pretending it isn't what it is can be a formula for anything except continued self-delusion.
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Rather, he shows us the desperation and self-delusion behind his addiction: the scheming and strategizing it takes to disguise how extreme his drinking is.
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So President Trump's twitter rant about voter fraud and his call for major investigation are more than self-delusion and insecurity over losing the popular vote.
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Vietnam proved that despite a certain amount of patriotic naïveté, Americans ultimately wouldn't put up with a seemingly unwinnable war founded on lies and self-delusion.
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"It's good to be king / Of your own little town … Can I help it if I / Still dream time to time," he cynically sang of self-delusion.
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JIA TOLENTINO RATES WEED EXPERIENCES New Yorker staff writer and author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion VICE: So tell me about you, Jia, being high.
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Dead Cells is one of those games that, when it runs up against the right combination of stubbornness, self-delusion, and neurotic obsessiveness, will ruin your life.
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It is this self-delusion, Levy reveals, that lies at the base of so much "motivated forgetting" — this stubborn conviction, despite all evidence, in our own innocence.
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Fittingly, Tuck's novella eventually reveals itself to be more a tale of self-delusion and internal conflict than the grand romance we were initially led to believe.
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So, instead of pinning its strategy on self-delusion, Washington now has the opportunity to find a real partner in the Iranian people and their organized opposition.
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The idea that each of these men are not only leaders but see themselves as being sui generis, one-off leaders of mankind, is absolutely flabbergasting self-delusion.
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It describes a form of self-delusion and combines elements of Latin and Greek that later passed through the French language before ending up as an English word.
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Then think of the president's skull, which is stuffed with other humours: insecurity, insincerity, victimhood, paranoia, mockery, self-delusion, suspicion, calculation, illogic, vindictiveness, risk, bullying, alimentiveness, approbativeness, vitativeness.
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On August 6, Tolentino releases her debut book Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, a collection of nine original essays that fall somewhere between personal and cultural critique.
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It's another thing—given the natural penchant for self-delusion that Alexander and others have emphasized—to really reckon with the fact that you're one of these human beings.
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In a recording studio, where artists and their cheerleaders often work in a fog of self-delusion, Starlite's collaborators said he can act as a kind of human compass.
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Hill's testimony may eventually be regarded as an inciting incident in a narrative that could be ranked alongside Watergate as a political tragedy caused by a single man's self-delusion.
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Washington (CNN)Hopes by Donald Trump's campaign that it can mobilize enough white voters to win in November is a case of self-delusion, according to GOP pollster Whit Ayres.
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Both of these men understand Trump's threat to our nation and the party, but whether out of fear or self-delusion or political pressure, they have submitted to a bully.
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It would now be a tremendous act of self-delusion for the U.S. to convince itself that Iran is heading toward more moderation, especially in the wake of Rafsanjani's death.
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Presidents hurl themselves at the FDR standard with all the self-delusion of big league hitters who dream of breaking Joe DiMaggio's legendary 2628 consecutive game hitting streak in 28503.
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As we begin to understand their source, and as Saul, a student of history, begins to fully understand his own, Levy explores the relationship between power, perception and self-delusion.
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The stories — all of them elegantly plotted and unsentimental, with an addictive, told-over-tea quality — are largely character studies of people isolated, often tragically, by custom or self-delusion.
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Terror Management suggests that human nature is actually wired towards self-deception: In order to avoid facing terrifying concepts like death, most of us live in a state of self-delusion.
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As he said, The Post's "fantastic original reporting on the fog of lies and self-delusion about the war in Afghanistan" was also, in a way, the topic of his book.
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It was the combination of these products of self-delusion, rather than a diabolical effort to fool the American people, that led to Washington's inability to extricate itself from Central Asia.
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This isn't entirely willful self-delusion; it's based on the notion that separation through negotiations into some kind of semi-sovereign Palestinian polity is likely the least bad solution to the conflict.
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It's a remarkable testament to fans' capacity for self-delusion that they are routinely willing to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for entertainment whose outcome is frequently determined within 15 minutes.
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The aspiration to be completely OK with the fact that I exist, or some other iteration of a perfectly whole human being, has only led me to self-delusion and further anxiety.
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Internal staff surveys are prone to self-selection and self-delusion and, while Glassdoor's reviews are open to ex-employees and are theoretically more independent, they share some of the same flaws.
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The Academy hailed Ishiguro's ability to reveal "the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world ... in novels of great emotional force" that touch on memory, time and self-delusion.
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Anyone who thinks that by attending a meeting less than monthly with 30 people in a room they are moving the nation is engaged in egotistical self-delusion of a high order.
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The vote for Brexit was in fact the moment Britain turned its back on the world, succumbing to pettiness, anti-immigrant bigotry, lying politicians, self-delusion and vapid promises of restored glory.
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But Selina, both whip-smart and an Olympian in the art of self-delusion, nails it episode after episode, flanked by people who are as drunk on proximity to power as she is.
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Even Stumpf was guilty of this form of self-delusion, explaining to Congress that he initially believed the practices were harmless because empty accounts were "auto-closed" after a certain period of time.
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Never has ignorance been such cloudless bliss; her self-delusion, buoyed by those about her, amounted to a kind of genius, and the story of that unknowing has now inspired a bio-pic.
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The book, out this week, traces Kalanick's trajectory from floundering startup founder to the envy of Silicon Valley to the epitome of tech evil, and with him a decade of excess and self-delusion.
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We can realize that all this talk about the fate of Earth has nothing to do with the planet's tolerance for higher temperatures and everything to do with our species' tolerance for self-delusion.
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This is a lie, of course, and one wonderful aspect of Rooney's consistently wonderful novel is the fierce clarity with which she examines the self-delusion that so often festers alongside presumed self-knowledge.
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In its most pure state, masculinity is a hardening shell meant to protect men from the disappointments and travails of life, a self-delusion that preserves them from feeling overwhelmed by the odds against them.
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At the end of "Burn After Reading," the pompous, alcoholic C.I.A.-agent character Ozzie Cox, played with urbane self-delusion by John Malkovich, confronts one of the civilians he believes has tormented and blackmailed him.
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Rather than the presidency imposing some sense of propriety on Trump, he has used the power of the position to project a sort of hypnotic disregard and amnesiac self-delusion upon the people who follow him.
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Unless we will find a way to account for the whole human subject, without self-flattery and self-delusion, we will move in circles, unable to overcome the blinding hyper-rationalism under which we currently slave.
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Other picks in included "How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy" by Jenny Odell, "Normal People" by Sally Rooney, "The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson and "Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion" by Jia Tolentino.
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Then there's the fact that Nixon, whatever you think of him, was a complex personality, Shakespearean in his paranoia and self-delusion, while Brinkley, on the evidence of Nuts, was just a quack, though an uncommonly successful one.
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Pub date: March 5 Jia Tolentino's debut essay collection is an examination of self-delusion, an unflinching look at the "cultural prisms" that make it impossible to see ourselves as we are — social media, the revered scammer, the obsession with efficiency.
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"Smoothing the data might seem the easiest way to an end, but the government well knows that it would be an act of self-delusion that could easily derail structural reforms and hurt economic growth in the long run," Zhang wrote.
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" And in the subdued waltz "Always Want You," what sounds at first like an affirmation turns into something more troubled and skeptical, a half-realization that a romantic fixation can be a willful self-delusion: "I think I'll always want you.
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Mine is absurd self-delusion, the result of spending too much time in my hometown, New York City, watching Mr. 11-Rings, Phil Jackson, make a fool of himself as president of the former professional basketball team known as the Knicks.
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The scale of the report is a monumental indictment, but the premise is already well-known to anyone who lived in the fog of lies and self-delusion that has defined the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan for two decades.
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Anyone who didn't see this coming either wasn't paying attention or was engaged in willful self-delusion, pretending that the G.O.P. was a normal party long after it should have been obvious that it had gone off the deep end.
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In the years that followed, climate policy became an afterthought, then a partisan issue, then a casualty of the Republican Party's delirious embrace of industry propaganda and self-delusion — until now, when it has become a matter of life and death.
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" In Moyo's view, cutting yourself off from constructive or negative feedback is tantamount to stunting your personal and professional growth, "people's capacity for self-delusion is enormous, and I wake up sometimes and I think, 'what might I be deluding myself on'.
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The Palestinians can have peace and a state if they return to the direct negotiations with Israel they abandoned — and the Middle East can take a step forward if all states refuse to be held hostage by Ramallah's obstinacy and self-delusion.
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This synopsis barely skims the surface of a multilayered, impudent, lacerating exhibition that pricks pretense and self-delusion on every level, from mega-rich collectors fancying themselves pillars of civilization to politically committed artists rationalizing their aspirations to the high-end gallery system.
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On the one hand, you can interpret this as a sign of Rubio's self-delusion, that he is so confident of his own abilities that it took him scrolling through every mean thing said about him on social media to realize he'd made a mistake.
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So instead, an entire generation of feminist and postfeminist women who stormed the barricades of the American work force, planned their reproductive destinies, and even got their partners to fold the laundry occasionally are now engaged in an odd sort of collective self-delusion.
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L has returned to a character he wrote fictional stories about in the 1990s, Mr. Brown Guy, who lives in a transient hotel among other men, and whose world is a reflection of his own lacks and self-delusion — someone, perhaps, not unlike Pope.
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His father, James, was the headliner, a ham actor, whose matinée-idol posturing and self-delusion prompted his brilliant son to run away and cook up a new kind of realism—fuelled by European-influenced ideas about angst and hopped up on the American vernacular.
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The debate was a great exercise in British self-delusion, running for three hours, as one politician after another put on their most serious statesman face, burping up heroic soundbites on fighting racism or free expression in the hope of being turned into a viral gif.
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With chipper self-delusion, Margery leaves John and their passel of children behind to go out into the world: first to sin as hard as she can (she buys a brewery and a dozy cart horse, beautifully played by Thomas Sommo), then to become a saint.
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"The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" (1964), a shattering study of liberal self-delusion and whiteness as an existential crisis, is criminally neglected, but "A Raisin in the Sun" (1959) is perhaps the most widely read, taught and produced play by a black writer in history.
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The latest salvo of self-delusion came in a speech on Wednesday morning where the president declared "permanent" peace in Syria, sort of, and insisted he was being congratulated for "a great outcome" — all the while directly undercutting the prepared remarks on the teleprompter with his own incisive commentary.
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Politicians are much the same, but in addition to the self-delusion, or maybe instead of it, I think there's an element of being even further removed and isolated by the privilege and power that either got them into office or was afforded to them once they got there.
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Edward Albee, widely considered the foremost American playwright of his generation, whose psychologically astute and piercing dramas explored the contentiousness of intimacy, the gap between self-delusion and truth and the roiling desperation beneath the facade of contemporary life, died on Friday at his home in Montauk, N.Y. He was 203.
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For the longest time, I've had to assume that running—that is, voluntary running, not, like running from a pack of feral dogs—is a willful act of self-delusion: convincing yourself that you definitely like doing this thing that sucks ass, despite knowing, somewhere deep down in your heart, just how much ass it absolutely sucks.
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The closeted Forster is even a character in "The Inheritance," looking with awe and no little concern at his hotheaded progeny — a sampling of contemporary gay men in a muddle — as they make the same blunders his parallel "Howards End" characters made then: ignoring history, trying to manhandle the future, acting from selfishness and self-delusion.
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Adrift in it, we can duck confrontation with the metaphysical and the existential: the piercing, enduring regret at how you treated an old, estranged friend; the inequities evident on every corner of the city; the fear that your life has been a project of self-delusion — that its elaborate armature, its gilded hand-stitched brocade, may in fact be moth-eaten.
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Though often self-indulgent and long-winded, the novel leaves the reader with both a devastating family portrait and a harrowing portrait of America in the late 1990's — an America deep in the grip of that decade's money madness and sick with envy, resentment, greed, acquisitiveness and self-delusion, an America committed to the quick-fix solution and determined to try to medicate its problems away.
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Burgundy dips into standup tropes (muttering "What else, what else" and pacing during segues, shouting out local sports teams and suburbs at length) and generally just exudes a darker, sadder version of that original Anchorman id: an ageing man just self-aware enough to be terrified of his own ever-growing irrelevance and of how little he understands the world, fighting that fear with self-delusion, non-sequiturs, and yelling.
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