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a grossly exaggerated belief in one's self-importance- He suffers from delusions of grandeur.
- Delusions of grandeur made him confident he would be victorious.
- I reached for some explanation and strange words came to mind, words I'd learned only minutes before: paranoia, mania, delusions of grandeur and persecution.Tara Westover -- Educated
- I was sitting in Psychology 101 when the professor read the symptoms aloud from the overhead screen: depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, delusions of grandeur and persecution.Tara Westover -- Educated
- The meandering conversation, the boastful tales at the dinner table, the delusions of grandeur—that was syphilis of the brain, not just the spinal cord.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn't a chance of winning.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Then, later on I heard, 'Conceited, fantasizing, delusions of grandeur,' stuff like that.Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
- It was not innocence or delusions of grandeur.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Lilly says people who wear purple a lot usually have borderline personality disorders, because they have delusions of grandeur.Meg Cabot -- The Princess Diaries
- Your father and his delusions of grandeur.Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
- We need to rectify this situation before you start suffering from delusions of grandeur.Colleen Hoover -- Hopeless
- Talk about delusions of grandeur.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- "I believe the term that my staff came up with was 'Communist, terrorist-loving danger-to-the-Republic with delusions of grandeur.'John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
- But it was only called the Yellow Dragon then, and neither of us had developed our delusions of grandeur.James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
- He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur," said Dr. Pritchett to a group of guests across the room.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- Regardless, Zeus had held me responsible for Octavian's delusions of grandeur.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- If you really want to enjoy life, you must work quietly and humbly to realize your delusions of grandeur.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- Delusions of grandeur.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- 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.Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- # "It is not our function—paraphrasing a philosopher whom we do not like—to be a fly swatter, but when a fly acquires delusions of grandeur, the best of us must stoop to do a little job of extermination.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
delusions of grandeur = a grossly exaggerated belief in one's self-importance
delusions of grandeur = a grossly exaggerated belief in one's self-importance
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