Sentences with phrase «of egomania»

Another week and there goes another fallen officeholder trying to claw his way back from tabloid purgatory — another chance for some people to marvel about the power of forgiveness and redemption, and other people to marvel about the power of egomania and pure chutzpah.

Not exact matches

The god of the bible always to me struck me as a tyrant requiring sycophantic praise to fill his egomania lest he kill the «sinners».

We are quick to quote other commandments against sins that are repulsive to us, but what about the sins of ambition, greed and egomania that manifest themselves in empire - building, money - grubbing, Babel - erecting success stories?

This simplistic, atheistic thinking represents the height of hypocrisy and egomania for those who choose to deny the existence of God.

If you simply free your mind from your indoctrinations, you will realize we are ALL in this together, and your individual perception of being «preferred» in any way by an omnipotent being is just egomania run wild.

Nelson is indeed Rabbit writ small: the son who repeats, on a lesser scale, the faults of his father: vagrancy, irresponsibility, egomania.

In a National Journal cover story this week, the magazine asks, «With no voter attention, no key issue he wishes to advance, no obvious interest in any other bureaucratic position, and no visible egomania, what, then, is driving Pataki to embark on the surreal experience of running for president?»

The GOP should forget about every other statewide office and concentrate on ridding us of Eric Schneiderman's egomania.

The backstage saga is imbued with understanding of and affection for actors and their combination of wild egomania and profound insecurity.

The ridiculousness, extravagance and egomania of metal icons at the time was skewered so perfectly that many RAWK stars since have found it less than comfortable viewing.

I wouldn't have been able to if I didn't build up a healthy tolerance for rejection (some people call this egomania and / or masochism) and surround myself with a community of people who inspire me to keep moving, who believe in what I have to say, who talk me off the ledge when I just want to go back to school for something utilitarian and important — like sustainable agriculture.

Listen, there's simply nothing like watching Tom Cruise get cucked — nothing quite like seeing him get knocked down a peg, be it by his then - wife Nicole Kidman and her fantasies of sleeping with other men (Eyes Wide Shut), or by a female interviewer scrutinizing his character's misogynistic egomania up close (Magnolia), or by genre itself, as in Edge of Tomorrow, where we get to see him die over and over again, something that's distinctly fun because of the indomitable meta - prowess of its star.

For such men, the «real» work of women is only that which directly or indirectly serves the family; any other commitment falls under the rubric of diversion, selfishness, egomania or, at the unspoken extreme, castration.

In December 2015, the Contemporary Jewish Museum's chief curator, Renny Pritikin, wrote — in a private email he accidentally sent to her — that Leeson was full of «egomania.»