egomania

His head was full of fantastic perversions as to the nature of duty, largely mingled with the signs of degeneracy, which in these days would be called egomania and megalomania.

Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895

Maybe it was because of the nicknames, maybe not, but Saladin. found Gibreel's revelations pathetic, anticlimactic, what was so strange if his dreams characterized him as the angel, dreams do every damn thing, did it really display more than a banal kind of egomania?

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

Randy, Flozell's extension was only one of the many mistakes made by "egomania" Parcells.

Dallas Cowboys Todd Archer/Reporter 2010

So, is selling shirts and pins that let atheists come out of the closet more publicly is a sign of being "closed-minded" or just a sign of "egomania"?

About.com Agnosticism / Atheism 2009

My book chronicles my attempts to find enlightenment via a spiritual practice complicated by capitalism, egomania, and a persistent desire to smoke cigarettes and eat red meat.

Suzanne Morrison: For the Exhausted Author, Wellness Is on the T.V. Suzanne Morrison 2011

My book chronicles my attempts to find enlightenment via a spiritual practice complicated by capitalism, egomania, and a persistent desire to smoke cigarettes and eat red meat.

Suzanne Morrison: For the Exhausted Author, Wellness Is on the T.V. Suzanne Morrison 2011

"In common parlance, narcissism is often used as a synonym for egomania or excessive self-regard," say Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young in The Mirror Effect.

Celebrity narcissism: A bad reflection for kids 2009

Tens of thousands in banking knew the deals they were closing made no sense and suspected that flattery and egomania had turned their and their masters' heads.

Why omerta still suits the the City's mafiosi | Nick Cohen 2011

Ord briskly dismisses the "feelgood activity" often associated with volunteering, and makes the more impulsive, less carefully researched charitable giving many people engage in sound like a kind of egomania.

The Saturday interview: Toby Ord and Bernadette Young on the joy of giving 2011

The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli).

The Heirloom City Dan Hofstadter 2011