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Chevron top pick If oil prices don’t budge, Trump’s desire to increase production could prove illusory, at least in the short- to medium term.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
18 Dec. 2024 -
Perfect justice is illusory because our parents or birthplace are serendipitous.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Jan. 2025
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His brother, children, and ex-wife, Susan, describe a bitter, paranoid conspiracy theorist haunted by the past, lost in the face of shifting musical tastes, hopelessly addicted to alcohol, and manipulated by Amy to turn on his family.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
19 Jan. 2025
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Burns, the administration’s de facto Putin whisperer, had heard it all before and understood that the Russian leader’s paranoid obsession with Ukraine was real and unshakable.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Photograph by Mary Mattingly / Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery Mary Mattingly’s photographs of moonlit gardens turn the Robert Mann gallery into a hallucinatory hothouse.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2025
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This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2024
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This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.—
Hillary Kelly,
The New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2024
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To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.—
WSJ,
WSJ,
5 July 2022
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Drawn with a spidery expressionistic line and featuring a cast of characters including the neurotic Bernard, brutish Huey and the graceful Dancer, the strip satirized social and political issues and gave voice to liberal humanist views during the culturally conservative 1950s.—
Rob Salkowitz,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Some parents are neurotic about validating their kids’ emotions or guarding their individuality; others fixate on maximizing their career potential.—
Stephanie H. Murray,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2025
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For someone who had spent most of his career with a low caesar, seeing himself with hair was surreal—and as expected, with growth also came grays.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Set to the same eerily catchy tune by composer Theodore Shapiro, the Season 2 incarnation of the credits — seen for the first time in Episode 2, now streaming — are even more haunting, diving into the surreal world of Mark’s brain and introducing other characters and landscapes.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.—
Rhoda Feng,
Washington Post,
14 Apr. 2024
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The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2024
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If a planet is visible from the night side of Earth, it can only ever be seen along an imaginary path through the sky called the ecliptic.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Monday’s victory was only a month and a week removed from one of the more embarrassing losses of the Knicks season, an NBA Cup quarterfinal loss Young punctuated by rolling a set of imaginary die on The Garden’s center-court logo.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
21 Jan. 2025
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“Delusional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delusional. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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