How To Use megalomaniacal In A Sentence
- Others might view such people as demented or delusional or megalomaniacal.
- The real blame for the continuation in office of the increasingly megalomaniacal Maire lies with the Liberals.
- 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
- 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.
- The count is a merciless rogue who reminds me of Orson Welles in Citizen Kane, only more megalomaniacal.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
