Word: megalomania
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...phrases "I'll tell you this..." and "One thing that's interesting...," Navarrette manages to cover all of the controversial points in his book with minimal prodding. During a phone interview, he gradually relaxed and assumed the tone of a storyteller, conveying a sense of self-confidence tinged with megalomania. While discussing his critics' assertion that he is opportunistic, he reminded me that if this is so, he wouldn't be the first Harvard graduate to display that characteristic...
...lived," Wright declared to a friend in the 1930s, "but the greatest architect who will ever live." Faced with such hubris, Secrest is ever the earnest apologist. "Few people," she writes about a similar outburst, "realized how compensatory those comments actually were." But if anyone should be excused his megalomania, it was Frank Lloyd Wright. He created dozens of masterworks, and his influence on a century of architecture is unequalled. Low-slung suburban houses, cathedral ceilings, wide-open interiors, the blurring of the indoor-outdoor distinction, office-building atriums -- there is scarcely any contemporary American architectural move that Wright...
Perots without his megalomania and glibness but with some of his energy, determination and salesmanship. Perots who are willing and able to focus on specific issues and solutions -- some perhaps from his own experts' program...
Given such messianic megalomania, national freedom didn't lead to individual freedom. On the contrary. In the name of the French nation, Paris long suppressed the national aspirations of Bretons and Normans; as soon as the Hungarians gained a measure of independence, they did the same with their Slavic minorities...
...Stone's old enemies, JFK may be another volatile brew of megalomania and macho sentiment. To his new critics, the film may seem deliriously irresponsible, madly muttering like a street raver. But to readers of myriad espionage novels and political-science fictions, in which the CIA or some other gentlemen's cabal is always the villain, the movie's thesis will be a familiar web spinning of high-level malevolence. JFK is Ludlum or Le Carre, but for real...