Because of auditory hallucinations, delusions, or emotional distress.

For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.

PARIS Negotiations over Iran s nuclear program have been stalled for more than three years. For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.

By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome the great flood gates of the wonder world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.

Peace will be won by the moderate voices around the world that demand an end to senseless violence and to the tragic illusions of those who believe in a final victory over their foes.

This fantasy, derived, no doubt, from American history from westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, from the Gold Rush and a settlement policy that valorized staking a claim to the wilderness and subduing it is powerfully appealing to men in general, and to many women as well.