| 单词 | self-deceit |
| 例句 | Eddie is at least as self-deceiving as Joyce's Little Chandler, but O'Connor chooses to hold him up for ridicule rather than explore his self-deceit, and by extension the nationwide self-deceit of the boom years. Where Have You Been? by Joseph O'Connor – review 2012-10-05T21:55:03Z He is an astonishing character, tormented, compromised but self-aware enough to know it, cynical but without self-deceit. 'Your Face in Mine' a bold take on race, identity by Jess Row 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z This isn’t the stuff of great love stories, but of ill-conceived dalliances, self-deceit and our deep desire to be wanted, often at any cost. I’m in love with a man who won’t leave his long-term girlfriend | Dear Mariella 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Watch out whenever you "tell yourself" anything; it's the red flag of self-deceit. Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend 2010-03-20T00:11:00Z Weight Loss Ward was good on the self-deceit of food addiction, but somewhat lacking in perspective. TV Review: Miniature Britain; Weight Loss Ward; Rome 2012-12-12T22:00:02Z But he's also a model of self-deceit that colors Rhys', the real Rhys, and the ultimate purpose served by the one we know with minatory tragedy. From "You" to "Barry," we're fascinated by audacious grifters: The man who deceives us and himself 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z I call this demimonde of deceit and self-deceit "Concussion Inc." Football's problem isn't the rules, the equipment or the medical care: This sport kills 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z ‘Trust’ is the third Starnone novel to be translated by American novelist Lahiri, after ‘Ties’ and ‘Trick,’ forming a powerful trilogy on self-deceit. Review: A satirical novel of male narcissism too accurate to be any fun 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z He is unable to accept the self-deceit that makes life bearable. Review: A secret becomes a heavy burden in Jhumpa Lahiri's latest translation of Domenico Starnone 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z Both, in his half-cracked, half-prophetic view, provide “a kind of strange sun, a light of abnormal intensity,” in which to see not only our weaknesses and self-deceit but also our freedom and potential. Waiting for Sauvignon Blanc: Pandemic reveals Samuel Beckett as the ultimate realist 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z His moral lapses, notoriety, vulgarity and self-deceit are beyond the pale of human disorder. How to spell out Donald J. Trump? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Most people would probably not see May as someone given to impulsive lying, so in her case it’s more likely self-deceit, an unconscious reframing of reality that puts her in the clear. Why is Theresa May blaming everyone else for Brexit chaos? Projection | Barry Richards 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z In “Angels”, Roy serves as an object lesson in the cost of self-deceit. Why “Angels in America” is back 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Among her answers: “My developing suspicion that The American People, although capable of considerable amounts of self-deceit, are not lemmings, after all.” Celebration, anthologies honor Topeka-born Gwendolyn Brooks 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Year after year, he commits one dictatorial error after the next, piling self-deceit on self-deceit as he tells fans success is close. Washington Redskins are the victims of top-down organizational dysfunction 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z There was no longer any self-deceit as to connection with the Roman Church. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z He felt fearful, on the one hand, of becoming a victim to self-deceit; and was horrified, on the other, with the terrible dread of losing his soul through the sin of unbelief. Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) 2012-03-12T03:00:23.003Z The happy few were represented as entering with difficulty, and treading with perseverance, the 'strait and narrow way,' which not even self-deceit could persuade me that I had found. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z I did not place more reliance on him on account of his devotion, knowing that devotion is but too often another mode of self-deceit: but I thought him incapable of acting like a villain. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z Such widespread self-deceit as to its being anything else is impossible of credence. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z I struggled hard asking myself if this was not self-deceit, but there was none, and I knew that if I said no it would be a lie. Friends I Have Made 2011-02-25T03:01:14.587Z I do not think that men thus wilfully shut their eyes as we women do: they have not the same happy faculty for self-deceit. A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel 2011-02-15T03:00:18.213Z The wisdom of this resolution, I must own, would not bear examination, and therefore I was never examined; for I retained too much adroitness in self-deceit to let prudence fairly contest the point with pride. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z If reason alone would have the decisive voice in this problem, every manifestation of God to man and every reaching out of the soul to Him in prayer would be idle fancy and self-deceit. Jewish Theology He improved and cherished every good disposition he saw arising in his heart, and particularly warned him against self-deceit, self-confidence, and hypocrisy. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales There was something I forgot to tell her when we parted last,” I said to myself, trying in vain to establish and believe in a transparent self-deceit. Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 The scene on deck was very striking, for human nature was there stripped of all disguise and all self-deceit before the presence of death. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 Nothing short of necessity could have induced me to expose her, while I saw reason to dread that self-deceit might, under the name of justice, countenance the spirit of revenge. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z If this innocent self-deceit gave her pleasure, it did not seem to me worth while to protest. A Romantic Young Lady When we are praying against deceit, we should not forget to take self-deceit into the account. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales And this strict scrutiny is no where more necessary, because there is no where more room for the operation of self-deceit. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. Thus when we cast our first glance into the labyrinth of the religions of the world, all seems to us darkness, self-deceit, and vanity. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion Unconscious, possibly; but, though the heart of man be inscrutable, we need not necessarily believe that such phenomena are open evidence of wilful self-deceit. Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles No fathers and mothers think their own children ugly, and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources Their poor shifts at self-deceit are painfully familiar to us. By the Christmas Fire No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.—Cervantes. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age He seemed to be swayed by an external impulse, and resented it with miserable self-deceit. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy And yet our reason tells us that all this is the very essence of self-deceit, and that such dreams and hopes are the devil’s most subtle temptation. Sermons at Rugby They could hold up, in ridicule or warning, profuse illustrations of exorbitant spiritual pride, blind credulity, infatuated self-deceit, barefaced imposture. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century Her words pierced the armor of his own self-deceit. The Lighted Way Then he slackened his pace a little, telling himself, with a pardonable self-deceit, that it was common, ordinary caution only, which induced him to do so, and nothing at all in the shape of fear. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood We are sorry to say, however, that the entire practice of angling is pervaded by a system of inaccuracy, exaggeration, and self-deceit, which is truly humiliating. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 And so, as often happens where the subtleties of self-deceit are thus cherished, he at length proceeds a downright conscious hypocrite, this too of the deepest dye. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England The seeming exceptions being cases either of hypocrisy, or of very common self-deceit, we need not regard either; for they are, of course, no real objection to the truth of the general statement. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps "A fine figure and curling hair … tears and empty promises … a thirst for beauty … false brotherhood … selfishness and the desire for conquest … dying voices of childhood … dreams and self-deceit…." The Song of the Blood-Red Flower To correct our self-partiality and self-deceit is the use of general rules. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Whatever may be said of the religious asceticism, the Epicurism required a corrective to redeem it from selfishness and guard it against self-deceit. Cowper The serpent charms of self-deceit which he has so hugged are now broken. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England A man who has had a good deal to conquer in himself, and has gone a good way to conquer it, is not apt to be indulgent to self-deceit or indolence, or even weakness. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 What a blind self-deceit their life had been! The Song of the Blood-Red Flower Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish. A Tale of Two Cities So 'tis that we conjecture from small signs Things wide and weighty, and involve ourselves In snarls of self-deceit. On the Nature of Things I suspect Lord Byron of some self-deceit as to this matter. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 How would I be fooling myself?" asked K. "You fool yourself in the court," said the priest, "it talks about this self-deceit in the opening paragraphs to the law. The Trial The depths of elemental immortality, of self-deceit and revenge, lie in our eagerness to judge one another, and to force one another under the yoke of our judgments. Happiness and Marriage The wishes of men are indeed a great help to such arguments, and therefore the easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different. The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes But it is a region in which the way lies readily open to all kinds of superstition and self-deceit. Religious Reality The habit of self-deceit is as insidious and tenacious as any vice. The Masquerader There was no refuge in ascetic resolve, in the self-deceit of spiritual enthusiasm. Demos Superstitious observances, self-deceit though of a more refined sort, will not in reality at all mend matters with us. Human Nature and Other Sermons The detection, it is true, is not so easy, because the objects are not so nigh at hand to compare, and therefore there is more room both for false pretension and for self-deceit. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners All this time Grace was silently watching her, to see if there was any deceit, or self-deceit, in all this; and, had there been, it could not have escaped so keen and jealous an eye. Put Yourself in His Place A lover's never hard to cheat, And self-conceit leads straight to self-deceit. Tartuffe Or, the Hypocrite There is a vein of madness and self-deceit in the character of the man who half- persuades himself that his own false facts are true. Books and Bookmen One would not think it possible that the weakness, even of religious self-deceit in its utmost excess, could have so poor a distinction, so fond an evasion, to serve itself of. Human Nature and Other Sermons |
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