The evasions, certainties and self-delusions suggest a clinical condition which would normally bring running the men in white coats. |
Yet somehow he forgot all the truths of his younger days and bought into the self-delusions spawned from his megalomania. |
If I have to choose between hearing the truth or maintaining the comfort of my self-delusions, truth will have to make a mighty good case for me to entertain its cause. |
Indeed, the character of Julien, with all his hissy fits and self-delusions, is hardly the picture-perfect beau. |