(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”.
Wealth
Definition:
(n.) Weal; welfare; prosperity; good.
(n.) Large possessions; a comparative abundance of things which are objects of human desire; esp., abundance of worldly estate; affluence; opulence; riches.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggests his wealth exceeds the total worth of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who was attacked for his wealth throughout the campaign.
(2) On the other hand, the expectation that authority will be bestowed by market forces following a miraculous ‘‘transfer of wealth’’ does suggest an alternative route to normal democratic processes: theocracy via plutocracy.
(3) Dinner is the usual “international” menu that few will bother with given the wealth of choice nearby.
(4) We have the nuclear-related wealth, which captures the highly skilled and the affluent and the upwardly mobile.
(5) If that's something to boast about, then living off inherited wealth must be something to be ashamed of.
(6) The current president of the supreme court, Lord Phillips, who steps down at the end of September, welcomed his successor, praising his "wealth of judicial experience" and "ability to lead a collegiate court".
(7) Sir Ken Morrison, supermarkets Jersey trusts protect the billion-pound wealth of the 83-year-old Bradford-born Morrisons supermarket founder and a large number of his family members.
(8) But through the takeover of land, exploitation of minerals and privatisation of resources, west Africa’s wealth is leaving in shiploads, just as it always has done.
(9) The sanctions that could be levied in the aftermath of the Geneva meeting were expected to focus on Putin's close associates, including oligarchs who control much of Russia's wealth, as well as businesses and other entities they control.
(10) The wealth of new information on BBM transport of Pi which has accumulated in recent years gives an indication of the importance and intellectual challenge that the mechanism of this process poses to investigators.
(11) According to the latest World Wealth Report from Merrill Lynch, there are now 10.1 million people worth more than $1m (£507,000), excluding the value of their homes.
(12) According to the latest available ABS data, which is for 2013-14, 72% of investment property assets are owned by, and 52% of investment property debt is owed by, households in the top 20% (ie the richest one-fifth) of the household wealth distribution.
(13) I believe in wealth creation and company profits, and for the government to play its part, and we have been working closely with business to shape that agenda.” Specifically, Miliband pointed out David Cameron, during his chairmanship of the G8 in 2013, had promised to make a crackdown on tax evasion one of his central goals.
(14) Good mental health brings with it a whole lot of goodies in Santa’s stocking, because after all, physical fitness and wealth are meaningless without it.
(15) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
(16) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
(17) When the Occupy movement suggested a distinction between the 1% and the 99% in society, this was based on the distribution of wealth, going right to the root of social inequalities: the 1% are the multimillionaires.
(18) Part of the new wealth has been driven by the rise in commodity prices.
(19) The federal government wanted all this wealth for itself."
(20) Michael Yoshikami, the founder of Destination Wealth Management, said Citigroup had a long way to go.