When people look at me and say "megalomaniacal" - why the inflection, as if it were a bad word?.    From Wordnik.com.  [amishboy Diary Entry] Reference

Interestingly, the museum exists to stand as a force against exactly this kind of megalomaniacal, controlling thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [MetaFilter] Reference

New Yorker's George Packer called Assange "megalomaniacal" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Self-indulgent, megalomaniacal - all of those things.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2009] Reference

Wurtzel's depression is, apparently, of the megalomaniacal sort.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Be Young, Gifted And Blue] Reference

His megalomaniacal need to destroy the Democratic party must end.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Cesca: Pennsylvania Primary: Liveblogging the Results] Reference

Let's take a moment to talk about the megalomaniacal Hillary Clinton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kim Mance: Cold, Calculating Hillary] Reference

In spite of my megalomaniacal ambitions, I throw my hands up, exhausted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buzzword: Twitter quitter] Reference

Their megalomaniacal sense of power precludes the possibility of compromise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Overwhelming Force Is the Only Way to Fight Terrorists] Reference

Youth must distinguish itself by forcefully restraining megalomaniacal old men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pius Kamau: Mbeki and the Butcher of Khartoum] Reference

By then, his increasingly brutal, megalomaniacal rule was ruining the economy he had built.    From Wordnik.com.  [SADDAM THE BUILDER] Reference

Let's start with the megalomaniacal media event he staged to announce his South Florida plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Maxwell Apter: LeBron James's Ego: Presumed Missing in Cleveland] Reference

Judging by a short conversation with him, director Roland Emmerich doesn't seem megalomaniacal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brad Balfour: Director Roland Emmerich Give Us Something to Look Forward to in 2012] Reference

I suspect he'd be one to take exception to Bushit's megalomaniacal claim of Executive Privilege.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking: Gates Distances Himself From Edelman's Attack On Hillary Clinton] Reference

Taking everyone on sounds extremely confrontational and aggressive, perhaps even megalomaniacal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robbie Gennet: Where Was McCain's Flag Pin?] Reference

  The only other company I can think of being so approachably megalomaniacal is Hank Scorpio's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liked "Parisian Love"? Google has 6 other Search Stories] Reference

We could do a lot worse, given how many megalomaniacal billionaires this country seems to produce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Micah Sifry: Bloomberg's Day] Reference

The Lord's Resistance Army would not exist without Joseph Kony, its messianic, megalomaniacal leader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mariska Hargitay: Law & Order: SVU Takes On the Issue of Child Soldiers and Sex Slaves in Africa] Reference

After having lost election after election for nearly 30 years, isn't this rather a megalomaniacal goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Huckabee Ahead By Five In Iowa!] Reference

Obama struts around with a conceited, in-your-face megalomaniacal egotism, which is “dictator like nature.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

The lesson of Tom DeLay that we mark today is not just that he is a corrupt, megalomaniacal scoundrel, which he is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Jacobs: Restoring the American Revolution Day] Reference

Conté violently suppressed any opposition and proposed his own megalomaniacal solutions to the country's myriad problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Canavera: The Coup of Their Dreams: Why Many Guineans Are Delighted With the Country's Military Takeover] Reference

He might have enjoyed a nice career and then channeled his natural abilities into becoming a megalomaniacal baseball owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rum, Roulette and Revolution] Reference

The 1953 CIA coup deposed popular nationalist prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the megalomaniacal Reza Shah Pahlevi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anis Shivani: What Comes After the Failed Policy of Containment: Review of Engaging the Muslim World] Reference

By comparison, Mr. Scott's Sean Ambrose is descended from the nastier and more megalomaniacal villains of the Bond and Die Hard series.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission: Abort Plans for M:I-3 ; Luminous Motion 's Sons and Lovers] Reference

Pamuk speaks about an international ecumenism, which may be idealistic, but his approach to it is neither megalomaniacal nor ineffectual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Dorchen: Moral Turkitude] Reference

The megalomaniacal Iraqi leader has clearly succumbed to what a C.I.A. shrink called, in the case of Osama, ''a narcissistic explosion.' '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maureen Dowd Devotes Whole Column To Edwards' Hair] Reference

Grotesque, sociopathic, megalomaniacal narcissism, that's the one irreplaceable quality these self-appointed gods of civilization possess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Dorchen: Atlas: Shrug This!] Reference

After visiting the cult's megalomaniacal encampment and interviewing some of its frightened members, Ryan and his party left without haste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Gregory: If Life Gives You Lemons, Don't Drink the Kool-Aid] Reference

Her megalomaniacal pursuit of the governor's office fits in nicely with the class-warfare we've come to expect from California Republicans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph A. Palermo: Meg Whitman's "Vision Thing"] Reference

Melodramatic and megalomaniacal, Hillary, like Joan, is an aging super star whose career is on the wane, but she refuses to exit the stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaun Jacob Halper: The Diva's Camp: The Appeal of Hillary Clinton] Reference