Their up-from-the-bootstraps backgrounds yielded unimagined political success, yet their demons, namely a delusional desire for power, led to their untimely downfall.
It's hard to tell a delusional quest for power from a savvy bid for a Fox News show (except in the case of Donald Trump's perennial pretend-campaign-slash-reality-show-commercial).
In earlier films (such as "Silence and Cry" and "The Red and the White," both from 1967), he depicted historical incidents in the form of molecular docudramas, in which ambiguous scenes from obscure chronicles accrete to yield up in plain sight but beyond the ken of the authorities fierce or rueful charges regarding abuses of power or delusional plans.
The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype a metaphor for itself".
However, to help maintain order, Trump must not give new energy to delusional racists demanding more white power.
People said two years ago I was delusional, but it shows you the power of self-belief, the power of staying the course.
In addition, Bush's top officials, fundamentalists all when it came to U.S. military might and delusional fantasists when it came to what that military could accomplish, had immense power at its command: the power to destroy.
Colonel Qaddafi's ruthlessness, near-delusional grandiosity and love of absolute power all suggest a severe personality disorder called malignant narcissism.
Or imagine if they had cracked down on delusional mortgages, as their consumer protection powers gave them the authority to do — and as they finally did only after the bubble burst.
Many, however, say this bid to reach Mars is a "delusional dream" of India seeking super-power status since 400 million Indians still live without electricity and 600 million people still do not have access to toilets.
