megalomania

It’s supposed to read as vulnerability, but it looks a lot like megalomania, surely the exact opposite of what Larraín intended.

Beethoven, of course, was no stranger to megalomania, and he even loved to brag to his friends about his vanity.

This is not to suggest that Romney should aspire to megalomania of Newtonian proportions.

As the race theory must inevitably lead to megalomania and reaction, so it must inevitably lead to militarism.

Even as race heresy must result in racial megalomania, it must result in political reaction and in the government of caste.

Of that megalomania the Kaiser has been, in innumerable speeches, the eloquent and insolent spokesman.

I went out of my mind, I had megalomania; but then I was cheerful, confident, and even happy; I was interesting and original.

What should be a generous, and in part altruistic, exaltation becomes mere megalomania.