megalomaniac

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Yes, there were gadgets and secret organizations, prisons, deaths and dark humor, but ultimately “Eve” was never about saving the world from yet another megalomaniac, a la James Bond.

From Los Angeles Times

You clock in and out and don't pay much attention to the rumblings of the megalomaniacal CEO; after all, a job is a job, and most CEOs are megalomaniac these days.

From Salon

Set around a conference table, the play offers a portrait not of an avuncular artist whose childlike imagination took over the world but of a megalomaniac who cannot brook dissent.

From Los Angeles Times

A mock slide show on Putin’s rise to power shows a pregnant woman with the caption, “Putin’s parents decide to try for an evil megalomaniac.”

From Seattle Times

That last imaginative leap is one of Hyde’s most spectacular, but if you ask me, her act only falters in its portrayal of the Camp founder, a standard-model megalomaniac.

From Los Angeles Times