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. ❋ 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? ❋ Rushdie, Salman (1967)
Randy, Flozell's extension was only one of the many mistakes made by "egomania" Parcells. ❋ 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"? ❋ Unknown (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 (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I doubt the queen could tolerate the egomania, bizarre interpretation of the christian religion, or the inexpensive K-Mart linen. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Because you seem to insist on this, how can we avoid seeing your egomania? ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2011)
August 19th, 2009 1: 26 pm ET now, it is thugs like this, who are able to exert political pressure on our elected officials for their gain, their egomania that has put this country where it is today .. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The golden era of football presentation came in the mid-70s when Jimmy Hill, a man with just the right strain of informed and energetic egomania, would commentate on a game, commandeer a private plane back to west London on which his greying beard would be touched up with mascara and then passionately analyse the match you'd just seen him commentate on. ❋ Unknown (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). ❋ Dan Hofstadter (2011)
Observers will disagree over what combination of ideological radicalism, egomania and sheer cynicism is motivating him, but what is clear is that President Obama is quite different from what Candidate Obama advertised. ❋ James Taranto (2010)
Hadn't I already heard this strange dialect from other people whose lives revolve around egomania and trichotillomania? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Hadn\'t I already heard this strange dialect from other people whose lives revolve around egomania and trichotillomania? ❋ Unknown (2010)
These episodes of egomania rarely end well for the individual offenders or their organizations. ❋ Unknown (2010)
