| Yet this megalomaniac blundered on, boasting of an episode in his life that had best be referred to only in passing. |
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| Well, we are dealing with a homicidal megalomaniac who has the capacity to do things that are beyond belief. |
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| The story is that of an intensely Irish megalomaniac father, who lives in the violent and paranoid world of his furniture store mogul past. |
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| Its central figure is a charismatic, obsessive megalomaniac bent on avenging himself on the civilized world. |
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| We've heard about how he was a megalomaniac who wanted to make his movie his way and didn't care who or what got trampled under to achieve this. |
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| Not a few biographies of Napoleon portray him as a megalomaniac and even a bumbler. |
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| This is music that has a megalomaniac quality, that creates a portentous grandiosity without much in the way of inner self-reflexivity. |
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| It's stylish and superficially entertaining, but his megalomaniac motives for his crimes are at best muddily explained. |
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| It was preceded by months of attempted negotiations with a megalomaniac, power-hungry, delusional autocrat. |
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| He considers the Emperor was a cynic, a monster, a psychopath and a megalomaniac. |
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| He was corrupt to his core, a liar, a megalomaniac, a misogynist, a bully and, like most bullies, a coward. |
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| The newcomer may look like a megalomaniac when compared with your more muted norm. |
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| Jeff Tracy and his sons sort out natural disasters and frustrate the dastardly plans of the megalomaniac villain called the Hood. |
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| This statement is either deceitful or the egotistical rambling of a megalomaniac. |
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| From the off, Spider-Man uses his wall-crawling abilities to foil the megalomaniac schemes of petty criminals and supervillains alike. |
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| The great megalomaniac and tyranical conductor is back and has gathered his 9 engineer musicians to recreate his reknowned train brass band. |
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| The Pentagon may be spending trillions trying to chase off one Mideast megalomaniac, but they're watching their pennies preserving paper. |
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| It is the anachronistic work of a nostalgic and megalomaniac baron, pining for the prerogatives of a feudal age in its death throes. |
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| Even by her own megalomaniac standards, Nicola Sturgeon's language on the day of her manifesto launch is breathtaking in its arrogance. |
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| The protesters have a variety of weapons and have been whipped up by the PAD's megalomaniac leaders. |
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| Surrounded closely on all sides by 50,000 soldiers and sailors, what is this megalomaniac Prabhakaran up to? |
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| Demands of local authorities are megalomaniac compared to the real needs related to return. |
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| We must not allow the Commission to develop and impose a megalomaniac vision of its competences in the field of competition. |
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| Those who hate the character might not hook on since he maintains his megalomaniac side. |
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| In collaboration with the elite of Jerusalem, Herod extorted insane taxes from the peasantry to fund his megalomaniac building projects. |
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| There have been cases of undemocratic countries where megalomaniac or biased leaders have steered development in a disastrous direction. |
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| Art has always been there and will always be there, good or bad, megalomaniac or modest, provocative or gentle, art makes life livable. |
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| Rather he is, in clinical parlance, a paranoid megalomaniac. |
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| Every month all 732 MEPs and their assistants make the trip to Strasbourg for one week of plenary sessions in another megalomaniac building. |
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| Is it unfair to describe him as something of a megalomaniac, where even allowing for his enormous contribution he appears to refuse to even partially relinquish his power? |
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| Finally, of course, there is the natural desire of the megalomaniac to hang on to power until the last possible minute and not to take the slightest risk of losing it. |
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| The psychiatrists diagnosed him as a megalomaniac with delusions of being a great poet, economist, linguist, historian, and political adviser to heads of state. |
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| The movie takes us back to sci-fi of fantastic beasts, megalomaniac scientists and of course the eternal debate of science without scruples turning into a runaway train. |
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| How can we ensure that an office invested with broad powers will not be used cynically by political parties, or irrationally by an unexpected megalomaniac? |
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| In the movie, T.E. Lawrence becomes a megalomaniac, a killer, and finally a mystery even to himself. |
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| Recognizing that Messier was simply a corporate charlatan, Bronfman stepped up and led the charge to remove the megalomaniac. |
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| Leading the megalomaniac set in the NFL is Dallas Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones. |
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| Palin is the rare female politician who is as much a megalomaniac as her male peers. |
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| This was the precisely the megalomaniac, untouchable ethos that appeared to contribute to Clarkson feeling that it was perfectly reasonable to harangue and attack that BBC employee the way he did. |
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| In what is virtually dynastic succession, father and son have been sacrificing the people of North Korea to their megalomaniac self-glorification and personal dictatorship for more than half a century. |
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| Little of this was reflected at the time in the mainstream media, which mostly portrayed the strike as an anti-democratic insurrection led by a ranting megalomaniac in defiance of economic logic. |
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| The reason why Labour needs to cut all links with Blair is because three election wins turned him into something of a megalomaniac, with a sprinkling of the religious zealot thrown in for good measure. |
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| The James Bond films usually featured a megalomaniac bent on obtaining a weapon of mass destruction with which he could take command of the planet. |
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| He was a lionhearted seaman, a rapacious plunderer, a masterly navigator, a Janus-faced schemer, a liberator of oppressed tribes, a delusional megalomaniac. |
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| Set Bond against an underhand, megalomaniac, yet elegant Baddie. |
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| The decline then the fall of the Angkorian empire is there too common to the other empires, ceaseless wars, construction of megalomaniac buildings despoiling the people. |
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| The drastic changes of the climate and the scarcity of the supplies drived the Rapa Nui in a megalomaniac circle: they tried to calm down the gods and the ancestors. |
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| This has nothing to do with the megalomaniac headmaster who wants to transform a school into a five-star facility, passing his name down in history for the construction of an impressive building. |
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| You play as a megalomaniac who has no other purpose than to conquer the world from his evil lair. The title features gameplay and construction management basis, and immersed in a world very parody in Austin Powers. |
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| On the foreign ownership thing, I think there really is a case to be made that some takeovers are indeed megalomaniac foreign CEOs trying to build empires. |
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| He then develops a sort of will of a megalomaniac encyclopaedist: under its aegis, the equidomoide became a revolutionary form found in all domains. |
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| In the eyes of an increasing number of our fellow citizens, what the United States has gained in power it is losing in confidence, owing to the Messianic and megalomaniac behaviour of its leaders. |
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| Subsequently it would be easy for a megalomaniac government to seize all rifles under the pretence of emergency measures and therefore secure the submissiveness of the people. |
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| There's a strange subplot involving a half-naked ditz whose pet chimpanzee attacked her best friend, and G. J. herself is less mother hen than megalomaniac. |
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