Hugo Chavez was shaped above all by his defeats - to the point of megalomania.

BBC: World media examine Chavez legacy

They say Mr Hazare has been elevated from a campaigner to a messiah, and his campaign now smacks of megalomania.

BBC: Has Anna Hazare's campaign run its course?

But what Mr Wade's supporters praise as his vision and statesmanship, his critics see as a tendency towards megalomania or autocracy.

BBC: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's rise and rule

As director and star, Van Peebles contracts a bad case of pulp megalomania he assumes epic postures as he photographs himself against the big sky.

NEWYORKER: Posse

The Harvard team is working to refine the technology, however, and there may be a day when we can satisfy our megalomania... or at least, put the Pied Piper on notice.

ENGADGET

It has been publicly reported, however, that U.S. intelligence believes Aristide to be a clinical psychotic, an individual who is sufficiently mentally unstable as to require medication and institutional treatment for depression and megalomania.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

This kind of megalomania is infectious.

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