Sentences with phrase «grand delusions of»

The film is at its best when it focuses on the two struggling actors sharing grand delusions of becoming superstars.

Much of the story centers on the smothering and painfully pretentious art world the trio inhabit and skewers the artistic community's grand delusions of changing the world with impenetrable academic theory, which makes the show sound unbearably dry.

Common sense and an education (neither of which you appear to have) go a long way In this world... no heaven, no planet for you to go to, no hell; nothing within your books can be shown to be true... do you care about the truth or are you a simple - minded fool merely wasting the only life you'll ever get for the grand delusion of something after?

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The spate of bad books on philosophy and religion by prominent scientists — Dawkins» The God Delusion, Hawking and Mlodinow's The Grand Design, and Atkins» On Being, among others — is notable not only for the sophomoric philosophical and theological errors they contain but also for their sheer repetitiveness.

I understand that someone in as deeply as you will never come away from what I believe is a grand delusion and a complete waste of energy, money and time so I'm not even going to bother responding to you any further... I'm not playing childish games with children!

In fact, in Vivek's continued state of grand delusion, we are really not much better than they are (if at all).

The only delusions of grander that should be worrying us come from the French fossil... I for one prey... Metaphorically speaking... That jon is right

The wealthy are prone to grand delusions brought on by environments of flattery, jealousy, and fear of scarcity.

I'd like to add an observation consistent with Benjamin Libet's experiments, which showed volunteers» brains initiating movement before they became consciously aware of an intention to move, as mentioned in «The grand delusion» (14 May, p 35).

Again and again, we see not just Quixote but others falling blissfully, though also tragically, under the spell of some grand delusion.

Believe me, any inflated delusions I might have had about where I fit in this grand scheme of academic affairs were very effectively deflated when the university where I was to deliver the keynote address sent a motorbike to bring me to the venue!

Refuse to do what you want at the PRECISE moment that it's most important that they do... like when you're trying to show off how obedient and well - trained they are (which is, of course, a grand delusion on your part).

In much of the work there is a playful duality: a diploma rests opposite imagery of stereo equipment; perfume is paired with a Western Union telegram; and comfort food is viewed in tandem with the U.S. capitol, exposing a grand delusion.

And because of this need, we all get caught in the grand delusion that war brings peace, that freedom means having enemies to kill, and that our guns make us safe.

We believe his carefully listed reasons to believe that humanity has indeed acquired the ability to affect our planet on a grand scale, and not merely developed delusions of grandeur.