Example sentences for: megalomania

How can you use “megalomania” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Is all this his special megalomania, or just garden-variety egotism?

  • And if, as an actor, Duvall gets drunk on Sonny's megalomania, as a director he keeps the character soberly in focus, so that we're simultaneously swept up in Sonny's good while recoiling from his evil, agog at his purity while giggling at the hamminess.

  • New York 's David Denby refuses to board the Howard Stern train, condemning the shock jock for his megalomania, his "fifties idea of sexual humor," and his crimes against "dignity" and "high-mindedness."

  • It half-works right up to the point where people start getting gassed, and then Benigni's moist-eyed heroism and tenacious faith in his own irresistibility start to seem like a monstrous ego trip--a clown's megalomania.

  • Morris' descriptions of Clinton's temper tantrums, says Ferguson, make them sound like "the kind normally associated with autistic children--except in the president's case they are overlaid with self-righteousness and megalomania."


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