The word 'megalomania' is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to an obsession with one's own power or importance and can also be used to describe a mental disorder characterized by delusions of grandeur. Example: The dictator's megalomania was evident in his frequent grandiose speeches and extravagant displays of wealth and power.
Zsuzsanna Szelényi, a liberal left MP and psychologist who has studied Orbán at close quarters as a colleague in the 1990s, describes him as restless and combative with leanings towards megalomania.
Sezgin Tanrikulu, a human rights lawyer and an MP for the main opposition CHP, or Republican People's party, echoes the allegations of presidential megalomania.
The "Sneetches", a people obsessed with stars on their bellies, is a tale with a gentle, funny message about racial prejudice; "Yertle the Turtle" is a parable about megalomania and dictatorship; the Lorax has an environmental moral; Horton, a motherly (male) elephant who hatches an egg, stresses "a person's a person no matter how small".
"Apollo did not compare me to a god…he did, however, judge that I far excelled the rest of mankind".Socrates resembled, say, the wiser-than-thou, often manipulative comedian, Jon StewartIt is a tribute to the Athenians that they mostly embraced such megalomania as a charming quirk.
They came from contrasting backgrounds and indeed cultures, but they shared the megalomania that all film directors need in some measure if they are to marry art with commerce in an industry compounded of both.
But they do matter, and the symbolism will be even more important in the run-up to the London Olympics.The absurd freelance diplomacy is not the only hint of megalomania that makes a third Livingstone term look undesirable (he originally said he would seek only one).
Daily bouts of meditation on the immensity of the galaxies, he argues, will offer "solutions to our megalomania, self-pity and anxiety".Had it been written as a direct response, Mr Scruton's book, "The Face of God" could hardly be a stronger refutation of Mr de Botton's project.
At the graduation day for 500 Startups, a school for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, such statements of focused megalomania are the norm.
Pedro Ramirez, the editor of El Mundo, a newspaper that has often teamed up with Mr Garzon, calls him "infantile in his megalomania", but also acknowledges his "indisputable record in serving the rule of law".
Last December the tribe's council (including two of Mr Lupe's cousins and one nephew) voted to suspend Mr Lupe as chairman, alleging corruption and megalomania.
