Drink was an increasingly important and self-deceiving prop in his life.

He was thankful for the fact, but not so self-deceiving as to ignore its significance.

So am I, dead tired: you self-deceiving, self complacent thing.

Conceivably all laws were immoral, the ground rules for one great, self-deceiving fraud.

And compassion that stops at America's borders is just self-deceiving callousness.

An ill-luck name, I had told myself, with all the self-deceiving guile of a child.

Am I self-deceiving when I should be honest with myself.

However, in the late 1960s he was strongly denounced by the students front as a symbol of self-deceiving postwar democracy.

Of the principal characters, Tom is the most lost and most earnestly self-deceiving.

But on the the other hand, I find it hard to resist the sight of a self-deceiving tool making a spectacle of themselves.

According to his daughter, he was a womanizing husband, a neglectful parent and a self-deceiving alcoholic.

Jon was not more of a fool than other men, nor was he more self-deceiving.

Patrick Parrinder has looked sardonically at this comforting but self-deceiving state of mind.

Reason at its best stands for the most enlightened, hopeful and least self-deceiving culture well-intentioned human beings are capable of.

This is self-deceiving," Qin said in a separate statement.

We are often so self-deceiving that our motives are often hidden from ourselves.

There are 4 conditions of the self-deceiving cycle:

Thinking that he could pursue high office while revealing himself to college students is not just self-deceiving and self-destructive, it's more than a little loco.

In fact, it is the characters who are making return appearances, but without the engaging, self-deceiving idiosyncracies that usually distinguish the director's work.

A satiric vivisection of a self-deceiving American family.

He was the easiest husband in the world to deceive because he was so self-deceiving.

It would probably be more fun than listening to some self-deceiving gilgul spin her miserable yam.

They may sometimes be self-deceiving, but they always deceive others – because we are easy to deceive.

That self-deceiving logic of self-pitying abandon: what could happen to me that's worse than what already has?

The Patriarch's Man was a self-deceiving fool with a book of laws and a machine that looked like a severed hand.