(a.) Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.
(a.) Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paranoid states is a term that covers a number of different disorders in which persecutory and grandiose ideas and delusions constitute a significant part of the symptoms.
(2) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
(3) Using various self-report indices of these constructs we found that (a) defensive self-enhancement is composed of two orthogonal components: grandiosity and social desirability; (b) grandiosity and social desirability independently predict self-esteem and may represent distinct confounds in the measurement of self-esteem, (c) narcissism is positively related to grandiose self-enhancement (as opposed to social desirability), (d) narcissism is positively associated with both defensive and nondefensive self-esteem, and (e) authority, self-sufficiency, and vanity are the narcissistic elements most indicative of nondefensive self-esteem.
(4) Variations in MAO activity were not significantly associated with the 65 clinical variables analyzed, although there was a tendency for patients in the low-MAO group to have more severely impaired reality testing, more paranoid and grandiose delusions, better prognostic scores, and less restlessness.
(5) Work has already begun to reshape some London roads and junctions, part of a grandiose £900m plan unveiled by Boris Johnson earlier this year.
(6) A distinction is made between infantile omnipotence and grandiosity.
(7) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
(8) In this paper the concept of the personal myth was expanded to include similar defensive constellations originating from within the grandiose self, built around omnipotent and omniscient fantasies and occurring in character formations with pregenital, narcissistic pathology.
(9) Certain problem behaviors of addicted clients can be addressed through confrontation and group pressure; to be expected are problems with manipulation, avoidance, aggression, impulsiveness, and grandiose denial.
(10) Concerning psychopathology probands with religious thematization in their psychosis had higher values of "grandiosity" in the IMPS (LORR), had more often experiences of immediate inspiration, evidence and clearness.
(11) In narcissistic individuals the grandiose self persists, making impossible demands for omnipotence.
(12) This was a galaxy-spanning utopia whose name was chosen for its self-deprecating modesty, rather than something grandiose like the Federation or the Empire.
(13) Maréchal-Le Pen, who grew up cosseted among the close-knit clan in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s grandiose suburban manor house – where she still lives with her husband, baby daughter and various relatives – holds an increasingly important role in the Le Pen family soap opera.
(14) Wen has scored at least one big victory in his time as premier: he is widely considered instrumental in sacking the Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai – a charismatic leader with a flair for Mao-era grandiosity – triggering the party's most dramatic political upheaval in decades.
(15) This development can only be understood as a social neurosis, with the narcistic frustation of the intellectual class as its cause, and grandiose claims, intolerance, dogmatic thinking and destructive behaviour as its symptoms.
(16) Moreau was a master of symbolist painting, who lived and worked in this grandiose house, which the artist himself had designed in the 19th century and today exhibits a quite incredible 1,300 of his striking works.
(17) We interpret these findings to mean that some schizophrenics may prefer an ego-syntonic grandiose psychosis to a relative drug-induced normality.
(18) Patients who persistently disapproved of the decision to override their treatment refusal were highly grandiose, engaged in denial of psychotic proportions, and responded poorly to treatment.
(19) Sadly, it would seem whoever is in government the grandiose ambition of the security state doesn't change.
(20) Nash was heavily criticised in his day and after for preferring grandiose scenic effects over actual build quality, with cheap brick houses under the painted cream stucco, but now his developments are kept up to a sparkle by their astonishingly wealthy occupiers.
Megalomania
Definition:
(n.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Point two: within that “rest of the world” (and the way her eyes follow you as the queue inches past the promotional stand for the loose-leaf stuff) resides every iota of the woman’s cod-inclusive, folksy megalomania.
(2) There was a significant correlation between megalomania and the item "development in rural country".
(3) Listeners of an age sufficient to preclude you from presenting the breakfast show – among the reasons given for Moyles' departure was that he's 38, too old for Radio 1's youthful demographic – should remember the increasingly unlistenable megalomania of Chris Evans in the mid-90s.
(4) You could argue this isn't as titillating as onstage megalomania or animatronic twerking.
(5) There is in the "old" and "new" group a significant correlation between megalomania and the male sex.
(6) While Blatter, consumed with megalomania, has forlornly played his usual games – attempting to knock out his enemies and promote the chances of his favoured sons – wider forces are at work.
(7) James, who kept a menagerie of exotic animals here and put his need to build huge towers down to “pure megalomania”, never completed his tropical shrine to surrealism but his fantasy realm remains a joy to explore.
(8) The background is an inferiority complex, and megalomania.
(9) Four psychopathological subgroups were defined: (1) mixed mania, (2) irritable mania, (3) megalomania, and (4) flight-of-ideas mania.
(10) Delusions such as megalomania and delusions with ideas of sex and jealousy showed a significantly poor outcome.
(11) The decrease of "sex-specific" delusions (megalomania and erotomania) is due to the sex concerned.
(12) Another war story initiated Scofield into the ways of big budget megalomania.
(13) The failure of both analysts to recognize Guntrip's infantile megalomania; to expose his insistence that the blame for his neurosis must be attached to a "totally" bad mother; and the failure to recognize the intensity of his sibling rivalry.
(14) This megalomania was a conscious choice on Hugo's part.
(15) Thus megalomania was found in only 13% of the patients and a manic type state in less than half.
(16) Manet's youth was marked by similar political and social upheaval as France's third revolution ousted the Orléans monarchy in 1848 and established a republic once more, only to have its elected leader, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, succumb to megalomania and declare himself Emperor Napoleon III three years later.
(17) One post, citing God's various haughty titles such as "King of Kings", asks whether "God suffers from megalomania or is just the Muammar Gaddafi of the heavens".
(18) In his diary of the making of Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog writes of her as an antidote to the all-consuming megalomania of his star, Klaus Kinski: "Claudia Cardinale is great help because she is such a good sport, a real trouper, and has a special radiance before the camera.
(19) There he led a series of acquisitions, including the purchase of a minority stake in Bank of China in 2005, which drew accusations of megalomania from critics, who suggested he was obsessed by global expansion.
(20) In a joint letter, they said members of the NEC had placed “personal ambitions, loyalties and jealousies at the heart of their decision-making” and displayed an “escalating megalomania”.