| Higgins's megalomania reached its nadir one night when he flagged down a police car and demanded to be given a lift to his destination. |
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| Some visions are so audacious, they can be expressed only as ironic jokes, lest the speaker be accused of pomposity or megalomania. |
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| It was the least of his transgressions in a career notable for its paranoia, deceptions, moral vacuum and megalomania. |
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| This vision of world domination goes way, way beyond hubris, and crosses the border into outright megalomania. |
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| So my ultimate goal of acquiring enough knowledge to conquer the stock market isn't a product of megalomania? |
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| This conviction frequently prompts its spokespersons to make irritating declarations that border on megalomania, the odious or the comical. |
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| Utopian enthusiasm promises enlightenment and community but it also risks exploitation, depersonalization, and megalomania. |
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| He has developed some kind of megalomania which makes him feel superior to others. |
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| Yet somehow he forgot all the truths of his younger days and bought into the self-delusions spawned from his megalomania. |
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| Though Shaw was prone to bouts of megalomania, he viewed his apotheosis with amused detachment. |
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| It is disheartening for a veracious researcher to debunk this Caspian megalomania. |
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| Stone and Parker are unafraid of lampooning both paranoid megalomania and the inane platitudes of Hollywood superstars. |
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| In the past, the building of such mega-projects as complete new cities was frequently driven by the megalomania of some despotic ruler. |
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| In one side, I wanted to share my expatriation experience, in the other side I did not want to sink into the common megalomania. |
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| This psychological weakness leads them to megalomania and discrimination and creates a situation where other groups feel humiliated. |
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| Rub in a paste of very fat marketing, season with a pinch of self-centeredness and megalomania. |
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| Turkmenbashi's megalomania and mismanagement have instilled a general climate of fear in the country. |
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| One could, out of professional megalomania, think there are none or very few. |
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| The organization was the fundamental problem of modern societies-if you will allow me to indulge in a bit of megalomania. |
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| Many of those projects, built with glass and steel, are characterized by megalomania, eccentrism and a questionable taste of the designers. |
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| But to his brothers his dreams appear to verge on megalomania. |
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| Rather, they live in worlds of enthusiastic self-delusion and megalomania. |
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| The paper has opened a nationwide debate on whether he should be allowed to continue in power now that he is revealing signs of megalomania and paranoia. |
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| He was ruined by megalomania and self-indulgence, but had also been shrewdly disarmed by a society that reduced those who threatened it to harmless buffoons. |
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| Beethoven, of course, was no stranger to megalomania, and he even loved to brag to his friends about his vanity. |
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| He also criticized the European Union for being a toy for political elites and civil servants, detested by the people for its largeness of scale, bureaucracy and megalomania. |
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| This is not to suggest that Romney should aspire to megalomania of Newtonian proportions. |
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| During his final years, and especially after the death of Hephaestion, Alexander began to exhibit signs of megalomania and paranoia. |
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| Sezgin Tanrikulu, a human rights lawyer and an MP for the main opposition CHP, or Republican People's party, echoes the allegations of presidential megalomania. |
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| I wanted to experience this sensation megalomania. |
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| History shows that when the notion spreads that a certain body of politicians has a monopoly on all that is good, holy and patriotic, it leads to megalomania, and megalomania leads to abuses of power. |
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| Thus, rather than megalomania, his behaviour may simply have been a practical attempt at strengthening his rule and keeping his empire together. |
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| In an interview with The Sunday Times last Saturday, Kofi Annan reproached the African leaders with greed, megalomania and failure to create better living conditions in their countries. |
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| Wasting government funds and megalomania, however, do not solve anything. |
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| They came from contrasting backgrounds and indeed cultures, but they shared the megalomania that all film directors need in some measure if they are to marry art with commerce in an industry compounded of both. |
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| Zsuzsanna Szelényi, a liberal left MP and psychologist who has studied Orbán at close quarters as a colleague in the 1990s, describes him as restless and combative with leanings towards megalomania. |
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| Part of this past is marked by a certain megalomania. |
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| Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's megalomania is advancing with his age. |
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| So for now, Mackay is stuck, just trying to ignore the megalomania around him. |
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| An inferiority complex and megalomania are behind Erdogan's policy and it has forced him to take risky steps. |
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| Whether you perceive the Atlantic Wall as a great defensive work or as megalomania, you'll have to decide for yourself. At the Atlantic coast of Europe, it is omnipresent. |
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| In addition to the tribulations of this voyage of discovery, this film relates not only the heroism of Columbus but also his megalomania and his ambition. |
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| Has the paranoia and increasing megalomania of their figurehead Erdogan ended up damaging the party, despite his having led it to success in several elections? |
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