How To Use Megalomaniacal In A Sentence
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Sunday: I opened last week with Percy B. Shelley's Ozymandias, a poem about Louis B. Mayer, to try and get across the point that Rachel's, or Boobiac's, megalomaniacal power-crazedness last week was short-sighted, as her queendom would not endure.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Sorrows of Boobiac.
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Others might view such people as demented or delusional or megalomaniacal.
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She is sensuous, grasping, self-absorbed, fierce, greedy, megalomaniacal, and utterly certain that she is entitled to have her ego, her power, and her way.
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Namely, she regards her father as an orotund megalomaniacal monkey.
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Interestingly, the museum exists to stand as a force against exactly this kind of megalomaniacal, controlling thinking.
MetaFilter
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New Yorker's George Packer called Assange "megalomaniacal" and
The Guardian World News
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I say the only paradigm shift self-serving, pretentious, narcissistic and megalomaniacal dictators could bring is to march the "Dark Continent" backwards to the Dark Ages.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Education Unbanned!
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Dr. Evil was a stereotypical villain; the megalomaniacal pursuer of world conquest who is always foiled by Powers.
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I do not know about you, but as a tax payer that last Tuesday had to pay the equivalent of 15 days income in taxes I am getting tired of that megalomaniacal Chavez ritornello.
04/02/2006 - 04/09/2006
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The set, smaller in scale, is a progressively decaying wonder that is intact as is La Follie's megalomaniacal attention-grabbing theatrics.
Swamp Thing
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Others might view such people as demented or delusional or megalomaniacal.
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Simple municipal projects, whether filling in a giant pit, or making sure that a megalomaniacal confectioner doesn't make our children obese, can quickly become hopeless boondoggles that, without the help of tireless bureaucrats like Leslie Knope Amy Poehler, the Hilary Clinton of Central Indiana, would overwhelm even the most red-white-and-blue of Americans.
Hulu.com: Parks and Recreation: A Who's Who of Pawnee's Finest Bureaucrats
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Bates manages to infect almost the entire cast and crew with his neuroses and megalomaniacal attitude.
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The real blame for the continuation in office of the increasingly megalomaniacal Maire lies with the Liberals.
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I'm a megalomaniacal tyrant trying to take over the world; you think I'll be swayed by some lowly henchman like you?
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When people look at me and say "megalomaniacal" - why the inflection, as if it were a bad word?
Amishboy Diary Entry
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It is, I think, a work of extraordinary hubris - the kind of megalomaniacal enterprise that can spring forth from a director coming off of a major critical and commercial hit (in [Ang]) and allowed by producers to indulge his every whim.
GreenCine Daily
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These people were ready to betray their country, not for money but in a kind of megalomaniacal pride in what they - they themselves - were going to achieve for that country.
[unwitting partners] we’re always the good guys, aren’t we
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Stripping the IM force down to leader Tom Cruise -- aided and abetted by Paula Patton, Simon Pegg and new recruit Jeremy Renner -- and paring the story down to a struggle to prevent a megalomaniacal terrorist from triggering WWIII, the film under the direction of animation vet Brad Bird, here making his live-action debut unpacks some of the baggage accrued in the previous installments to become a lighter, wittier exercise in epic action.
Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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France's foreign policy is driven by soulless sycophants who are willing to suck the sweat off the balls of any megalomaniacal tinpot dictator who will award them a few contracts and lend international support.
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Christopher Marlowe demanded in "Tamburlaine," his blood-sodden drama about a megalomaniacal one-time shepherd who had swaggered and slaughtered his way to a vast Asiatic empire in the 14th century.
The Greatest of Them All
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The other ace in Dassin's deck is Cronyn, playing a corrupt, savage prison guard bent on bringing "discipline" to his inmates, while nursing a megalomaniacal ambition to replace the wimpy Warden.
John Farr: Burt Lancaster: Always Larger Than Life
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The count is a merciless rogue who reminds me of Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, only more megalomaniacal.
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His methods aren't subtle but when you have megalomaniacal ambitions it's easy not to be shy about getting your hands dirty while disposing of assorted Latino gangsters.
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Though cross-island expressways had been envisioned by the Regional Plan Association in the 1920s, it was in the postwar years that the megalomaniacal urban planner Robert Moses made Lomex — a proposed 200-foot-wide swath along Broome Street requiring the demolition of buildings housing at least 1,972 families and 804 businesses — the centerpiece of his vision to modernize New York.
Indignation Superhighway
