Example sentences for: megalomaniac

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

  • Indeed, you probably can't become the manager of a really large hedge fund unless you have a slightly irrational faith in your own judgment; when success depends on being able to convince other people to let you take huge risks with their money, it is not the paranoid but the megalomaniac who survive.

  • Some label producer Garth Drabinsky a megalomaniac bent on besting Disney and dominating Broadway.

  • Thus, for instance, Pollak views Bettelheim's distorted Austrian credentials as a megalomaniac's forceful bid for authority in his new country.

  • Their monsters differ (Satanic pornographers and incestuous rapists on the one hand, megalomaniac therapists on the other), as do their helpless innocents (wounded children vs. day-care Dreyfuses).

  • Like Louis B. Mayer, William Fox, and Jack Warner--the eastern European Jews who invented Hollywood--the Weinsteins are chutzpah personified, imperious and megalomaniac.


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