self-deception

How To Use self-deception In A Sentence

• I applaud the ease and convenience of that answer; too bad I lack the power of self-deception necessary to believe it. Harlan Ellison on God
• What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self. George Eliot 
• Huey, excited by Robert's ideas on deceit and self-deception, was eager for the three of us to get together.
• Making allies of the enemies of democracy because they share putative interests with us is, in other words, not realism but foolish self-deception.
• It is hard to read the auguries, so complex is this interplay of deception, self-deception, bluster and bluff.
• Face it, he is almost pathological in either his mendacity or in his self-deception.
• On balance, he felt that hysterical dissociation states - if such was indeed Joanna's case - were really about deception and self-deception. COMPULSION
• The first half of the book is an introduction to evolutionary psychology and to theories of deception and self-deception.
• Indeed, because there's no such thing as a unified self, just a collection of modules, the very phrase "self-deception" is misleading in the author's view. Hard-Wired Hypocrisy in Our Divided Minds
• His claim to be an important and unjustly neglected painter is sheer self-deception - he's no good at all.