megalomania

Yet this very megalomania seems to be both the secret to his longevity and to his unhinged nature.

His megalomania saw large parts of Europe devastated in his lifetime and forced into communism after the war.

These men's megalomania was captured in two masterworks: Orson Welles's film "Citizen Kane" and Evelyn Waugh's novel "Scoop" .

In the end, as we saw in Gaddafi's downfall, the sons were expected to sacrifice themselves on the pyre of his narcissistic megalomania.

Thus does the paranoia, megalomania, and fanaticism of the rulers become deadly dangerous to every single person.

Libya, of course, represents a level of megalomania and social pulverisation straight out of antiquity that has few recent parallels.

But by normal standards of dealmaking megalomania (think of Sir Fred Goodwin, once of RBS) Mr Thiam is a model of courtesy and lucidity.

Taxpayers bear the cost of guaranteeing this fruit of megalomania.

But Mr Kim, for all his megalomania and paranoia, is a shrewd tactician.

Their weak spot is a huge self-respect which can turn sometimes into megalomania.

Maybe a Jelly Baby can cure Kim Jong Il's megalomania a.

It seems that there is something advantageous in the megalomania that is his defining lifelong trait.

This argument was originally only a temporary sick mind, but it is appeals to Asian peoples, megalomania;