For the prosecution, the difficulty was to counter the image of a deluded and pitiful old man.
He was a deluded old man who thought he was my father.
He is a deluded man who, as he plots to win back his faithless wife, continues to solicit the attention of other women.
"Return this deluded man to his cell."
In this impressionistic portrait of a deluded man discarded by society, he achieved something akin to poetry.
"They were deluded men spelled with Darksong by a young man who didn't understand, and who didn't want to."
Not only the deluded men and women in the garden were worshippers trapped in a vile religion, he thought.
He was a deluded old man who could only embarrass his daughter on her wedding day by chasing angels.
Weakly, the deluded man sank head back upon the cot.
But again the as yet unspecified 'protections' of Foundation members had been sufficient to ward off such deluded men.