megalomaniacal

When people look at me and say "megalomaniacal" - why the inflection, as if it were a bad word?

amishboy Diary Entry amishboy 2003

These people were ready to betray their country, not for money but in a kind of megalomaniacal pride in what they - they themselves - were going to achieve for that country.

[unwitting partners] we’re always the good guys, aren’t we 2009

These people were ready to betray their country, not for money but in a kind of megalomaniacal pride in what they - they themselves - were going to achieve for that country.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

Interestingly, the museum exists to stand as a force against exactly this kind of megalomaniacal, controlling thinking.

MetaFilter FatherDagon 2009

New Yorker's George Packer called Assange "megalomaniacal" and

The Guardian World News Tracy McVeigh 2010

It is, I think, a work of extraordinary hubris - the kind of megalomaniacal enterprise that can spring forth from a director coming off of a major critical and commercial hit (in [Ang]) and allowed by producers to indulge his every whim. "

GreenCine Daily 2009

It is, I think, a work of extraordinary hubris - the kind of megalomaniacal enterprise that can spring forth from a director coming off of a major critical and commercial hit (in [Ang]) and allowed by producers to indulge his every whim. "

GreenCine Daily 2009

I say the only paradigm shift self-serving, pretentious, narcissistic and megalomaniacal dictators could bring is to march the "Dark Continent" backwards to the Dark Ages.

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Education Unbanned! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

I say the only paradigm shift self-serving, pretentious, narcissistic and megalomaniacal dictators could bring is to march the "Dark Continent" backwards to the Dark Ages.

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Education Unbanned! Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

Though cross-island expressways had been envisioned by the Regional Plan Association in the 1920s, it was in the postwar years that the megalomaniacal urban planner Robert Moses made Lomex — a proposed 200-foot-wide swath along Broome Street requiring the demolition of buildings housing at least 1,972 families and 804 businesses — the centerpiece of his vision to modernize New York.

Indignation Superhighway Julie V. Iovine 2010