(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”.
Omnipotence
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Omnipotency
Example Sentences:
(1) These are phenotypes which the crl mutations have in common with previously isolated omnipotent suppressors.
(2) That is to say, an identification via projective identification has taken place, which heightens intrinsic omnipotence, to allow what has been termed the identificate to believe that it has become the desired object--and thereby that within this spuriously organized ego-structure exist the characteristics and functions of the object or part object that has been taken over.
(3) A distinction is made between infantile omnipotence and grandiosity.
(4) 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.
(5) (2) The central theme of "passion" in Equus would seem to relate to the vicissitudes of infantile omnipotence, as noted in both the content of the play and the process of playwrighting.
(6) In narcissistic individuals the grandiose self persists, making impossible demands for omnipotence.
(7) The development of the thinking processes from childhood to maturity is analyzed and three stages are distinguished: the magic omnipotent stage of the preschool child, the development of the realistic ego, and the future-directed value-building superego.
(8) In fact charm and magic refer to the same phenomenon, the promise of blissful sleep at the breast of Mother, the omnipotent charmer.
(9) A new omnipotent suppressor, SUP39, and alleles of sup35, sup45, SUP44 and SUP46 were identified.
(10) In the presence of the non-Mendelian factor [eta+], some alleles of previously isolated omnipotent suppressors are lethal.
(11) Mutations in a known yeast gene, ADE3, were shown to act as an antisuppressor, reducing the efficiency of the omnipotent suppressor, sup45-2.
(12) In conclusion, the concept should not be used as a justification for analyst omnipotence and avoidance of countertransference responsibility.
(13) Commercial interests now seem omnipotent, parroting the cry of the development lobby everywhere that they are synonymous with "jobs, growth and the future".
(14) We report a human homolog to wt yeast omnipotent suppressor 45 which shares 63% identity at the nucleotide level in the area of open reading frame (ORF) and 73% similarity at the amino acid (aa) level.
(15) The student should also have more than one supervisor, as this tends to protect against the development of overidealization on the part of the student, of omnipotence on the part of the teacher.
(16) On the other hand, sup111 through sup115, which acted as recessive omnipotent suppressors in the psi+ cytoplasm, manifested no, or very low, suppressor activity in the psi- cytoplasm.
(17) Narcissism is examined in terms of three lines of development: erotic self-love, omnipotence, and the regulations of self-esteem.
(18) Restriction mapping and DNA hybridisation analysis were used to demonstrate that the SAL4 gene is identical to the previously identified omnipotent suppressor gene SUP45 (SUP1).
(19) If all progressive voters were directed by an all-seeing omnipotent god-being to perfectly optimize their vote then the Tories would land in the 330s.
(20) God is omnipotent and omnipresent, he will take care of everything.