How to Use megalomania in a Sentence

megalomania

noun

• Their CEO has an arrogance that borders on megalomania.
• Isaac nailed the cold charisma of the modern tech mogul; Magnussen nails the whimpering megalomania.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• Some critics (including the group that in March dumped 88 pounds of animal dung outside the Palazzo) view the show as an exercise in megalomania.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
• Holden is at the vanguard of that new method—and his insights are both its best-case scenario and, as Holden’s megalomania grows, a nightmarish display of everything at risk.
  — K. Austin Collins, HWD, 14 June 2018
• At first the writers play the joke for pure corniness, but the true extent of Homelander’s lying and megalomania gradually reveals itself.
  — M.s., The Economist, 27 Aug. 2019
• The momentum of megalomania that drove Bismarck to forge the German nation-state was unabated by 1914.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 17 June 2021
• Science meets megalomania in this up-to-date nifty entertainment.
  — Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2021
• Bezos’s own creative ideas are similarly shallow—a mix of Joseph Campbell and his own megalomania.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
• Giuliani’s grandiosity and megalomania may have worsened, but those qualities weren’t new even in 2001.
  — Chris Smith, The Hive, 4 May 2018
• The democratic spirit, unconstrained by virtue, creates a tyranny of egos, a monarchy of megalomania.
  — Joseph Loconte, National Review, 7 Apr. 2020
• But no one can begin to change this 74-year pre-existing condition, meaning megalomania.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2020
• Majorities are almost always composed of two or more parties, which tends to defuse extremism and megalomania.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 3 Nov. 2021
• The treatments continued every day for months and may have amplified Hitler’s megalomania and self-delusion as the Allied armies advanced on Germany and tens of millions of soldiers and civilians perished.
  — Joshua Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2021
• While Trump is a man driven by crudely transparent megalomania, Johnson understands how and when to sacrifice his ego and charm people into liking him.
  — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2021
• Ejiofor is angrier, more malevolent, and more terrifying than Irons, whose Scar has more charisma and more megalomania.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 July 2019
• Like Natasha and Yelena before them, these are Russian orphans who had their minds invaded, their bodies violated and their free will taken, all in service of one man’s megalomania.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2021
• The Soviet leader, like Adolf Hitler, had a tendency to meddle in military decision making, and his megalomania could have persuaded him to pursue such an idea.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2018
• As his megalomania and isolation grew, Mr. Mugabe’s rhetoric became more extravagant and bizarre.
  — Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• The series, inspired by real events in the financial world, centers on narcissism, megalomania and double standards and was created by producers and showrunners Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Feb. 2022
• These include, according to numerous critics, a tendency to megalomania and authoritarianism, as well as an anti-Muslim bias that had been an open secret for years before the current crisis.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 13 Dec. 2019
• Closer listening would be an improvement over shallow megalomania.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 14 Dec. 2020
• Well aware of Wright’s reputation for selfishness and megalomania, Hendrickson does note occasional pockets of humanity: in Wright’s generous treatment of fellow architects fallen on hard times, for example.
  — Christopher Benfey, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
• Their outgoing president, Alberto Fujimori had been democratically elected as a populist, only to preside over a regime of corruption, repression, and personal megalomania.
  — Jonathan M. Katz, The New Republic, 20 Jan. 2021

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