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The Indie film community's head is so far up it's own ass with delusions of grandeur that they actually fail to see, at times, the area where their own films succeed.
Having listened for 20 years to people unfortunate enough to be labeled “schizophrenic,” considered to be the most extreme form of “mental illness,” and having subsequently researched the causes of hallucinations and delusions for ten years, I believe that the public understands madness better than we experts.
Some psychiatrists had reported that excessive use could lead to a psychotic state, including hallucinations, delusions, and thought disturbance.
Both views are delusions.
These countries should shelve any delusions of finding “black gold,” enjoy the short-run benefits of cheap oil, and take action now to align infrastructure investments to changing technology.
Anyone who believed that the political system should be changed was suffering from "reformist delusions."
But we benefit from these delusions.
The terrorism, proxy wars, arms shipments, nuclear ambitions, and grandiose delusions emerging from Iran are part of an age-old struggle with which the Saudis have had enough.
Logic suggests that such a referendum would reverse the 2016 decision to leave the EU, because any specific Brexit proposal presented by the government would be far less attractive than the utopian delusions that managed to secure only a narrow majority two years ago.
According to the highly respected medical reference UpToDate, a subscription-financed service used by professionals, the symptoms of dementia include agitation, aggression, delusions, hallucinations, apathy, and disinhibition.
For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.
These conditions are often accompanied by elaborate delusions – images of reality that confuse information generated in the mind with that provided from outside.
Instead, the roots of Taseer’s assassination lay in the dark delusions of fanatical belief, his killing supposedly undertaken to protect the faith.
Their campaign was rife with delusions and dishonesty.
German politicians would thus seem to be suffering from some serious delusions about the importance of gold and the effects of shifting its location.
For the lickspittles of Trump’s court, dutifully confirming the president’s delusions is de rigueur.
Patients report hallucinations (false perceptions) and delusions (false beliefs).
For example, patients with delusions of control report that their movements are alien; they feel as if they were being made by someone else.
In fact, we have found precisely that: patients with delusions of control report that the sensations that occur when they stroke their own palm are just as intense as the sensations caused when someone else strokes their palm.
The Delusions of China's Growing NationalismBEJING: China has recently seen an upsurge of ultra-nationalism, all the more disturbing because of the way in which Party, state and military leaders have, by insisting that "hostile foreign forces" are arrayed against them, charged this nationalism with a xenophobia that is never far beneath the surface in modern Chinese history.
The Crusades from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, for example, brought forth what MacKay described as “epidemic frenzy” among would-be crusaders in Europe, accompanied by delusions that God would send armies of saints to fight alongside them.
In an increasingly dangerous, ever-more interconnected world, Britain cannot afford to make its most important collective decisions based on delusions.
American Delusions Down UnderNEW YORK – For better or worse, economic-policy debates in the United States are often echoed elsewhere, regardless of whether they are relevant.
Personally, I am deeply sorry that Argentina has ventured into this realm of mistakes and delusions.
In others – Spain and Ireland – it financed the delusions of private real-estate developers.
In most countries, such charges would seem like paranoid delusions.
In short, specific terrorist threats should be fought through narrowly targeted counter-terrorist operations, while moderates should undercut extremism through the politics of compromise rather than the false and dangerous delusions of military victory.
Taken together, these distortions and delusions have had serious consequences.
But this is no time to yield to delusions.
Big Money Merges with Big BrotherPARIS – All over the world, Internet users entertain romantic delusions about cyberspace.
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