megalomaniain a sentence
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She described him as an authoritarian megalomaniac.
megalomaniac = someone with delusions of grandeur (the belief that they are much more important than they are)
- Russell Pickett is a straight-up megalomaniac.† (source)
- But they might well decide he was insane and needed treatment for his megalomania.† (source)
- The only people who could stop it —three fashionably dressed teenaged demigods and a megalomaniac goat.† (source)
- As the negative press filtered back to him, the megalomaniacal leader turned a cold shoulder to the criticism and insulated his team as much as possible from the other expeditions.† (source)
- He might have said something, some offering of impotent outrage, if this had been the work of the Taliban, or al-Qaeda, or some megalomaniacal Mujahideen commander.† (source)
- Confident, self-assured, real men who wouldn't have forced her to pretend to be anything but her own perfect, rigid, demanding, brilliant, creative, fascinating, rapacious, megalomaniac self.† (source)
- And in believing, he couldn't see how outrageously megalomaniacal his words sounded to others.† (source)
- That sounds megalomaniacal.† (source)
- "And if you look in the dictionary under 'delusional megalomaniac,' you'll see your picture."† (source)
- He's a megalomaniac.† (source)
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- Even a megalomaniacal billionaire, determined to prevent the dehydration of his pride, grows weary of pouring away money with the tap open wide.† (source)
- We have a megalomaniac problem.† (source)
- This runaway megalomania marked him as a blood member of the fraternity of generals.† (source)
- I liked him immensely, his sullenness, his corpselike color, except when he was lodged in a good mood, when he became overbearing and megalomaniacal.† (source)
- A megalomaniac.† (source)
- 'He had fits of madness and megalomania upon the dais, as the scribes, their heads bent in terror, pretended not to hear.'† (source)
- Are you a complete megalomaniac?† (source)
- It can result in megalomania, as I call it.† (source)
- What he said was megalomaniacal, but suppose it was true?† (source)
- That's not a sign of impending megalomania or anything.† (source)
- Why does every one jump straight to megalomania when this project gets mentioned?† (source)
- There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania.† (source)
- But a touch of megalomania, all the same.† (source)
- What comes through even more strongly is megalomania, delusions of grandeur, of complete loss of ability to understand the effect of what he was saying on others.† (source)
- Leaving aside the reasons why they are what they are-which can range from a justifiable cause to the psychopathic megalomania of a Jackal-you keep the charades going because they're playing out their own.† (source)
- His seductive voice, which seemed to lick each of his hideous threats to savor the texture and astringency of it, was filled with the quiet confidence and smug superiority of a megalomaniac who carries the badge of a secret authority, receives a comfortable salary with numerous fringe benefits, and knows that in his old age he will be able to rely upon the cushion of a generous civil-service pension.† (source)
- "You give good megalomania," I said.† (source)
- Was I doing all this for Poteete and Pearce and Bentley, or was I doing this because of a runaway megalomania I could not control?† (source)
- Or, our business is to contend against the very megalomania we tend to induce, if you follow my reasoning.† (source)
- I recognize the megalomania in myself, and I recognize that I must make perfectly sure that my motives are as pure as possible.† (source)
- A touch of megalomania.† (source)
- And yet sometimes … You see, a megalomaniac, as psychologists tell us, is a man who has done a good deal of repressing--pretending to himself that he does not actually feel what he actually feels, if you see what I mean.† (source)
- One way you feed his megalomania, the other you baulk it.† (source)
- It is not a house of God, but the cell of a megalomaniac.† (source)
- …the race, now represented by the Irish Republican Army rather than by the Scots Nationalists, who had always murdered landlords and blamed them for being murdered—the race which could make a national hero of a man like Lynchahaun, because he bit off a woman's nose and she a Gall—the race which had been expelled by the volcano of history into the far quarters of the globe, where, with a venomous sense of grievance and inferiority, they even nowadays proclaim their ancient megalomania.† (source)
- She could not see that in trying to curb what she regarded as megalomania she was doing anything wicked.† (source)
- A sensitive, susceptible, exaggerative, earnest man: a megalomaniac, who would be lost without a sense of humor.† (source)
- "Ah, baron, baron," said Albert, "you are not listening—what barbarism in a megalomaniac like you!"† (source)
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