Sentence examples for Intoxication of power from inspiring English sources

"Then it's easier to spot an incipient intoxication of power," he said.

DeLay, too, was full of hubris and the intoxication of power, setting himself up for an inevitable fall.

This Christmas I will read The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power by David Owen (Politico's).

Granted, like all others, activists can at times fall prey to the potency of intoxication of power.

And I see now that my ambition and the intoxication of Trump power had much to do with the bad decisions, in part, that I made.

The French title is "L'Ivresse du Pouvoir," the drunkenness of power, and, in part, the story of two high officials who risk their position for pleasure suggests just such intoxication.

Her error seemed borne of a lack of experience in the political arena and intoxication with the power of the tabloid press in which she had spent her working life (she tried to put Mr Bryant in his place by reminding him she had 10 million readers).

Sometimes, such lack of appetite is expressed in a more hostile fashion- the culprit often being intoxication with power.

By the tale's end, Odysseus realizes that his difficulty began with his intoxication with power.

Its intractability is part of the intoxication of belief.

Both the intoxication of love and the hangover of loneliness are given idealized, elegant form.