delusions of grandeur

NOUN
  1. a delusion (common in paranoia) that you are much greater and more powerful and influential than you really are
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How To Use delusions of grandeur In A Sentence

  • She wants to travel first - class: she must have delusions of grandeur.
  • They're too tongue-in-cheek, too savvy and intelligent to be discounted as amateurs, yet sophomoric enough to not buckle to pretentiousness and delusions of grandeur.
  • Even if social analysis is something which everyone does, those who engage in it professionally are still tempted by delusions of grandeur.
  • At times, Coughlin has exhibited what might be interpreted as delusions of grandeur.
  • In the acute excitement stages, when delusions of grandeur, loquacity and hyperactivity prevail, the patients require physical restraint.
  • A dhole pack with delusions of grandeur fails to take Mowgli and his wolves into account. Archive 2007-04-01
  • She is clearly suffering from delusions of grandeur .
  • There are three possible sources of finance for a garden to match my delusions of grandeur.
  • ‘I'm a hillbilly singer with delusions of grandeur,’ Earle says, with a guffaw.
  • But unlike the playa poseurs and iced-out bling-bling rappers still living in their parents' basements, this group had no delusions of grandeur when they wrote songs about living the high life.
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