Word: megalomania
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...have us believe. For him the word majority is a magic philtre, and he cannot say that the Nazis are unable to brew it; thus, although they have burned his books and routed him out, his cavil is not a constitutional one. Castor calls this another example of the megalomania which Mr. Ludwig's essay on Mussolini the strange and uncritical gimcrack...
...result of her ducking brought on "intestinal consumption" which plagued her all her life. Carry's mother suffered the delusion that she was Queen Victoria; Carry's only child died in an asylum. Carry's mental inheritance took the form of megalomania. She was incorrigibly bossy, inherently destructive...
...copious quotations from Aiken's poetry and the accompanying long interpretative passages by Mr. Peterson make one feel at times as if the poetry were a sort of program music to be explained in the prose terms of psychology such a Paranoia, Megalomania or various other complexes. In these interpretations the poet's relationship to T. S. Eliot is indicated and also in certain later poems a streak of morbid bitterness is traced to the Elizabethans, Donne, Marston and Webster. The abstruse nature of Aiken's poetry can be seen in the conclusion as to his five symphonies written between...
...United States . . . publishing books apart from textbooks . . . is a luxury business. ... Publishers have suffered for years from a form of megalomania which has made them feel themselves potential General Electric companies, American Telephone & Telegraph companies and United States Steel corporations. ... In the average American community there are not enough people who will buy sufficient books to make his [the bookseller's] volume big enough to give him a living wage...
...person of Michael McDara, he draws the sudden nauseating terrors, the megalomania, the curious mystical exaltations of the assassin. McDara, having conceived the assassination-idea, three years before, arrives in Dublin a few days before the act. He enlists the support of two men and a woman. His continuous struggle against panic, and above all the conflict of conceptions of the act's significance and symbolism make the book...