Word: megalomaniacal
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...percent in October 2007. Thankfully, the contradictory and extravagant nature of Sarkozy’s personality has yet to take a major toll on France’s foreign relations. For now, the image Sarkozy projects to allies is that of a slightly deranged but internationally-harmless megalomaniac...
Only in small seminar discussions are students sufficiently intimidated by close contact with distinguished professors, who not only have a better mastery of the material but are also not afraid to tell students they’re wrong. So when the class megalomaniac says something obtuse like, “I think we should discuss the theological implications of the eschatological, and Stephen Dedalus is the devil,” the professor will respond, “No, I don’t think that’s relevant at all. In fact, I wish you would think more before...
...looms over every modern president, not just Republicans, as a goad or a reprimand, a taunt or an inspiration. Historian, hunter, soldier, essayist, cowboy, megalomaniac - he was bigger than life, in the way that all politicians hope to be. Richard Nixon, a president whose insecurities and intimations of unworthiness reached pathological levels, invoked TR throughout his presidency, right up to the mawkish speech he gave as he left the White House two steps ahead of the sheriff. For politicians of the soft and pampered boomer generation - "well-meaning little men," as TR once called the type, "with receding chins...
...Knock both sympathetic as the only voice of scientific logic in the small town of San Maurice and—once Dr. Knock successful converts the population of San Maurice to depend on his “treatments”—believable in his monstrosity as a megalomaniac authority figure who creates bedridden, paying patients out of healthy townspeople. Above all, she excels at that transition between disappointed young doctor and crazed dictator...
Such is life with the franchise billed as "America's Team." On the other hand, far to the north, life is so sweet for the Packers that many are coming to view them as America's real team. Owned by snow-shoveling townspeople rather than a manure-shoveling megalomaniac like Jerry Jones, dedicated to reviving the glorious tradition of Lambeau and Hutson and Lombardi and Hornung, led by a truly charismatic defensive end (Reggie White) and a throwback quarterback (Brett Favre) who has learned to confine his swashbuckling to the field, the Packers are ready to do the Lambeau Leap...