Sentences with word «megalomaniac»

A "megalomaniac" is someone who has an excessive or extreme desire for power, control, or importance, often accompanied by delusions of grandeur or an inflated sense of their own abilities. Full definition
The Daniel Craig incarnation of Bond has mercifully turned its back on the era of megalomaniacs with private armies and spacecraft trying to conquer the world from inside extensively refurbished volcanoes, though the villain in Skyfall (Javier Bardem's camp and lispy Silva) does posess a small, albeit hopelessly derelict, island somewhere in the South China Sea.
The villain behind all this mayhem is Thanos (Josh Brolin), a genocidal megalomaniac who likes to visit different planets and wipe out half the native population.
South Koreans could be forgiven for feeling nervous living 55 km away from the border of North Korea, 55 km away from a heavily armed and unstable country run by a fat man - child with megalomaniac tendencies.
After all, how many state legislators also moonlight as political megalomaniacs in their home Counties?
Hey Christians: If Adolf Hitler found jesus and truly repended on his deathbend, then this racist, murdering genocidal megalomaniac is in heaven, right?
In Neon Chrome you are tasked with taking down a futuristic megalomaniac called «The Overseer», a particularly unsavory chap, he has designs on controlling society and generally being a massive jerk without compare.
Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957) showed how a down - home country boy (Andy Griffith in his film debut as Larry «Lonesome» Rhodes) could be transformed into a pop television show icon and political megalomaniac.
Myers also plays megalomaniac villain Dr Evil and an obese Scottish lecher, and despite some amusing moments the picture's immense popularity in the States is as puzzling as its writer - star's confused aims.
Renegade Ops is a top - down, dual - stick shooter, where you get to drive around in cool vehicles, with even cooler weapons, and wreck havoc in awesome environments, with the goal of stopping evil megalomaniac Inferno from taking over the world.
Michael Fassbenders portrays Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as a narcissistic megalomaniac in Danny Boyle's new film.
The only other explanation is that he is a person possessed by his own egoistic and most probably megalomaniac dreams.
Ben Stiller is back as Derek Zoolander, alongside original cast members Owen Wilson (tousle - haired knucklehead Hansel) and Will Ferrell (megalomaniac fashion tycoon Mugatu).
The new half - hour animated special will feature the original voice cast with Gary Cole voicing the titular hero and Stephen Colbert voicing megalomaniac billionaire President Phil Ken Sebben.
The idea that there will be one all powerful megalomaniac that will rise up and dominate the world is false.
While we do get one affecting scene in which Thanos momentarily questions how much he's willing to give up in order to pursue his deranged vision, it's still not enough to overcome the character's primary purpose: to stand there as a muscled - up megalomaniac at which the Avengers throw their endless punches.
Startup culture is the new wellspring of rich, out - of - touch megalomaniacs.
He wrapped up the interview saying «dotdotdot started as a kind of a case study and at first we were daunted by all the too's: too crazy, too ambitious, too megalomaniac of a market, but then too many people said we should do this... so here we go and give it a try.
It had a real echo of Douglas Adams — perhaps thanks to Pegg's English sci - fi sensibilities — in the overarching story of a sad megalomaniac collecting bits and pieces from all over the galaxy to construct a bomb.
It centers around two influential New Yorkers: megalomaniac star gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) and one of his more energetic publicist - sources, scummy but fashionable Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis).
But the intellectual flowering that Jobs had in late high school wasn't confined to hard - charging megalomaniacs — he also discovered a love for verse, particularly Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.
Why did working - class voters choose a selfish, thin - skinned, petulant, lying, narcissistic, boastful megalomaniac for president?
LLOYDS BANK CEO, HORTY NOSORIO is not the only disgusting megalomaniac with a stormy Daniels relationship...
He seems to be some kinda provoker, crazy antisocial megalomaniac.
I am glad he is not like all the rest humans have invented... happy dreams... I hope you enjoy eternity with your particular megalomaniac..
He doesn't deserve to be put in a category with dangerous megalomaniacs.
You can tell I'm a deeply troubled megalomaniac with too many mental illnesses to list.
People who are megalomaniacs do things like take our air time during the super bowl to wave their beliefs in the air or publish an autobiography before they hit their mid-twenties.
It's sad how megalomaniacs are always tagged as atheist.
Either he was right, or he was an absolute megalomaniac.
It worked in India because the British were not autocratic, megalomaniac killers, unlike Hitler, who did as he pleased, like Erdogan, these days.
No surprise there then as there is only room for le megalomaniac.
This club belongs to millions of Arsenal fans not greedy selfish ego driven megalomaniacs Kroenke and Wenger.
I really hope Boro beat us, because we need all the help in the world to remove megalomaniac Wenger from our club.
These old school bankers and diamond dealers are not impressed by a violent thug like Usmanov or the al - thani megalomaniacs, they have on their side, good old fashioned business sense, no flim flam.
The surreal opera made its world premiere at the Teatro Reál in Madrid earlier this year, and depicts the American animator as «a racist, misogynist megalomaniac».
I think it could put people off; it's a shame if it did because people wonder, maybe it's a stereotype, but people have a perception of politics being full of megalomaniac nut jobs.
Mr Kawczynski said he expected Libya would be able to pay the bill in spite of Colonel Gaddafi's «megalomaniac economics».
Either that or a sadistic megalomaniac who enjoys punishing people.
With a surprising lack of difficulty they track her down to a plantation known as Candyland, owned by the charming but megalomaniac Calvin Candie (Leonardo Di Caprio).
This take on Lex is — like the placement of Gotham and Metropolis as Oakland — San Francisco sibling cities — provocative... or it would be, were it better developed, if it didn't turn out to be a surface - level reworking of your standard - issue megalomaniac.
Sadly the original rough cut of the film was destroyed by the studio, probably to keep megalomaniac Welles from putting his film back together.
It's fine when the villains (brother and sister megalomaniacs Malin Åkerman and Jake Lacy) say they need to turn their office building's radio aerial into a giant - monster - homing beacon so had their tech guys «modify it last night».
The plot is weaker than some of Marvel's more recent stories (I'm looking at you Winter Soldier), and the villain is the biggest mustache twirling megalomaniac the studio has yet produced, but what it lacks in completely solid writing it makes up for in its wonderfully charming cast, an impressive use of special effects, and at least a baby step forward as far as female supporting characters are concerned.
«Every movie I make is a step inside my teenage dreams, and Suspiria is the most remarkably precise teenage megalomaniac dream I could have had.
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