But I did joke about his grandiosity plenty of times.
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And its grandiosity undermines the ragged pleasures of the genre.
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For all of Assange's grandiosity, what has he actually done?
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Concerns about grandiosity and narcissism dogged Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency.
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Trump, with characteristic grandiosity, dismissed that argument and outbid Bush.
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Often Lee's banter helped to leaven Kirby's tendency toward grandiosity.
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Besides, the mendacity, the grandiosity: That's just Trump being Trump.
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His darker sense of grievance converges with a neon grandiosity.
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The expansive, glowing slow movement had lyrical grandeur without grandiosity.
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Underneath the breezy Gallic grandiosity, Lévy delivers fairly ordinary analysis.
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His grandiosity and bombast make him an entertaining media personality.
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And indeed, there is grandiosity to killing oneself over Facebook Live.
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The original comic was real quirky, lots of pomp and grandiosity.
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Short of a return to grandiosity, what lies ahead for Priorat?
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He also has grandiosity, which is something that accompanies that problem.
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It's that both are obsessed with grandiosity, or rather the appearance thereof.
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Perfect commentary on hip-hop's grandiosity, even if it was by accident.
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Let's say I develop paranoid delusions, but my friend develop grandiosity delusions.
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That grandiosity transferred to the public consciousness and, eventually, to the president.
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We are at a rapidly escalating risk as Trump's grandiosity & paranoia rise inexorably.
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Like many period pieces, everything about the film oozes a kind of grandiosity.
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The grandness of scale is matched by a kind of grandiosity of ambition.
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Critics mock Mr Macron's grandiosity (calling his presidency "Jupiterian" was a bit much).
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Mania is typically characterized by grandiosity, racing thoughts, irritability, sleeplessness and heightened impulsivity.
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Apologizing for the grandiosity, Jonze likened them to Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe.
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But his reputation dwindled with later military setbacks, exacerbated by his Napoleonic grandiosity.
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Miller's sometime grandiosity and his shameless prejudices can be ridiculous, and he knows it.
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It doesn't exploit Ms. Streisand's imagined shopping mall only for its weirdness and grandiosity.
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Yet he has pretensions to grandiosity that far outstrip the art of the possible.
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This combination of gargantuanism, grandiosity and guaranteed payouts may end up in financial disaster.
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Commonly recognized symptoms include irritability, loss of ability to concentrate, delusional thinking, and grandiosity.
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But the letter's grandiosity felt like the moment Ramsay finally invited his own demise.
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As Kiefer recalled it, his cooling-tower proposal was met with accusations of grandiosity.
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Sometimes, I crave a musical where grandiosity is unencumbered by logic and good taste.
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Sagan's grandiosity helped him gain a vast popular audience; it also hurt his cause.
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But grandiosity and profound insecurity often find the same form of public expression: recklessness.
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Insecure about his voice, Mr. Cohen lacks all grandiosity and politely endures press interviews.
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Reliable and assured management is a welcome tonic to grandiosity emanating through the media channels.
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There's no helicopter with her name on it, no grandiosity; it just seems so normal.
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So the Truman Show delusion might have a bit of reference and grandiosity in it.
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Turns out, manic stages can also manifest themselves as feelings of irritability instead of grandiosity.
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Both are endlessly fascinating psychological studies: self-regarding, with Napoleon-style grandiosity, and self-incriminating.
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Or you can focus on his irascibility, his grandiosity and the bellicosity of his believers.
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Political theater, with its tendency toward hectoring and grandiosity, is hard to credit these days.
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"His career was the source of his feelings of omnipotence and grandiosity," Mr. Colbert quoted.
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His grandiosity exerted a paradoxical magnetism, tempered as it was by an easygoing self-deprecation.
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For all the grandiosity of its ancient Grecian name, the Draco is a fairly unassuming thing.
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Mr. Trump has done the opposite and engaged in grandiosity that damages his and America's credibility.
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There's so much artifice and pretense and grandiosity in the characters that it actually fits perfectly.
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Their simple but heroically scaled gestures channeled the grandiosity and high drama of midcentury action painting.
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And yet there's something legitimately poignant about the show's "Lemonade"-flavored blend of grandiosity and fragility.
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The book provides still more; it outlines Trump's petty belittling of others, his self-important grandiosity.
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His grandiosity, insularity and scamming have persuaded Trump to believe he can mold his own world.
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And like any addiction, their desire for ever-greater entitlement — and attendant sense of grandiosity — grew.
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I can't prove that the album's grandiosity correlates with its fantasy concept, but the coincidence is there.
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Another trick for me is to challenge my own grandiosity by focusing on the smallest of goals.
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Sunday's final clash was a masterpiece of tension and release, goose bumps and heartbreak, grandiosity and intimacy.
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But Mr. Bates soon begins to rely on alternating modes of dogged propulsion and layer-cake grandiosity.
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Ultimately, the grandiosity of the UDC's vision for the Jefferson Davis Highway did not match up with reality.
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In a fit of grandiosity, he first guessed "millions," but, of course, the real number is much lower.
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The music alternates, often without warning, between grandiosity and, as Mr. Nelsons said, the intimacy of Schubert lieder.
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Orchestral grandiosity and danceability wouldn't normally work together—and there were times when that gulf was very apparent.
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He is instead guided by impulse, the search for praise and vengeance, and the wish for personal grandiosity.
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Onstage Ms. McLean is a redheaded spark plug who exudes an easygoing charm without a shred of grandiosity.
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Does the grandiosity of "Monument to Balzac" (for which there is a small study in the show) overbear?
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An intricate crocheted coral reef has reached another level of crafting grandiosity in its tenth year of development.
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Is this the slapdash approach to grandiosity and ruthlessness we really want as an example for our children?
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The faux triumphal arch that greets visitors to Crocus City establishes the grandiosity of the Agalarovs' commercial complex.
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Paranoia gets the most attention, grandiosity less, and there's been very few studies that have looked at differences.
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His 2012 "Rushes," written for seven bassoons, manages to achieve a grandiosity of colors from such restricted means.
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CN: Our dream was to find a location that would fit the grandiosity of what Toni Morrison means.
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It's this self-awareness of exaggerated grandiosity that makes SuperFly, Blaxploitation films, urban fiction, and hood flicks worth watching.
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People lined up on the streets to watch this display of American grandiosity as it rolled through their country.
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Preferring grandiosity and P.R. stunts to policy details, Johnson has stumbled on his hubris, lack of preparation and disorganization.
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It's his Roger Waters-making- The- Wall moment of rockstar panic, likewise resulting in solipsistic mythmaking and musical grandiosity.
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For the most part, the film's heaviness is a virtue, even when its director, James Gray, slips into grandiosity.
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She was prone to fits of grandiosity and torrential abuse, particularly to her longtime partner, the photographer Annie Leibovitz.
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There is a grand sense of grandiosity in entering these holy spaces explicitly designed to entice and intimidate pilgrims.
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This, according to Mr Dyckhoff, was what lay behind the wave of grandiosity in public architecture, his age of spectacle.
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The book is essentially a critique of Bush-era "neoconservative" grandiosity written from the perspective of realpolitik and conservative nationalism.
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Mr. Page doesn't affect a prophetic grandiosity — he is just an ordinary guy blundering along with the rest of us.
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Equal parts grit and grandiosity, he views himself as a fed-up political rebel, railing in monologue against one-percenters.
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Despite her "grandiosity," Blight thinks it probable that Assing and Douglass were lovers, even if her devotion wasn't fully reciprocated.
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Glück's analyses seem to derive from this grief; she is wary, and sometimes darkly funny about, poetry's temptation toward grandiosity.
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But the ability to grab power does not grant the wisdom to wield it, and ungrounded grandiosity is just pretension.
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Since then, the escalating grandiosity of many bridal couples, together with the backlash against them, has resulted in various outcomes.
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The mission is certainly Trumpian in its grandiosity; the landing would occur during a second term of the Trump administration.
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They'll lose their jobs, their spouses and children will abandon them, and their "bubble of grandiosity [will] burst," he says.
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Paak's R&B fusions to the big room EDM grandiosity of Calvin Harris to the punky-fun of Meg Myers.
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But after hours, alone in his little Parisian bolt-hole, Lequeu (1757—1826) birthed on paper an architecture of wild grandiosity.
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And he is clearly bruising for a fight against anyone who stands in the way of that grandiosity, whatever it is.
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But the Olympics, by dint of their grand scale and metastatic grandiosity, are when and where we see it most clearly.
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Narcissism involves an unrealistic sense of grandiosity and superiority, manifested in the form of vanity, self-admiration and delusions of talent.
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Within that context, his grandiosity and his incompetence combined to form something that wasn't so much threatening as it was hilarious.
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There was no George Martin sound to put beside the lushness of Burt Bacharach or the massed grandiosity of Phil Spector.
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With delusions, that can be complicated, because in some—for example, delusions of grandiosity—the person might actually like the belief.
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But, when the Pfeffermans use that kind of jargon to justify their behavior, there's always someone around to puncture their grandiosity.
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Though the orchestra and choir do eventually arrive, the song backs away from its peak, as if it's questioning easy grandiosity.
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But more of this came down to Trump himself — the lidless grandiosity, the bottomless vulgarity, the lies atop lies upon lies.
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The buck stops with Jared Kushner, never mind that his grandiosity and shortcuts were emulations of dear old dad-in-law.
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Sometimes he lets Bannon's self-contradictions speak for themselves, and at other times intercedes by visually skewering and undercutting his grandiosity.
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For all the NBC production's screaming grandiosity, this version of Jesus Christ Superstar was worth staging for this breathtaking moment alone.
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With Bridges, he once again finds the most optimal synthetic settings to showcase the inspirational grandiosity of his technically proficient voice.
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Low, with its gaseous gasps and post-Popol Vuh grandiosity, marked the recently departed David Bowie's former's first foray into alien electronics.
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Still, it wouldn't be a Coldplay single without some earnest flicker of grandiosity, so here too is Muhammad Ali, talking in 1977.
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"He grandiosity was probably at its highest point ever a month ago," said Tony Schwartz, Trump's "Art of the Deal" co-author.
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Even seasoned homeowners can get caught up in the allure of a certain neighborhood or the grandiosity of a big, modern home.
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He mixed mockery, profanity and grandiosity in a style more suited to a barstool than a podium decorated with the presidential seal.
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"The grandiosity and emotion of Wagner's music is matched with the cinematic possibilities that a VR space offers," Nguyen tells The Creators Project.
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THE European Union may be a Franco-German construction, but when the project needs a dose of grandiosity it invariably turns to Italy.
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The Killers' transhistorical camp combines the glamour, detachment, and kitsch of English synthpop with the grandiosity, sincerity, and kitsch of American classic rock.
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In Hofstadter's terms, what makes Trump paranoid is the grandiosity of his claims, the framing of politics in terms of vast apocalyptic stakes.
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The personality traits associated with this include narcissism, lacking empathy, grandiosity, being impulsive, being a thrill seeker, fearing commitment and being self-destructive.
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Channeling the warbling grandiosity of Candlemass and the fist-pumping bravado of Manowar, Procession released multiple albums and tracks in rapid-fire succession.
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This symbolised the protesters' view of the infrastructure projects: wasteful sops to the party's fondness for grandiosity and for symbols of national unity.
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But grandiosity is certainly one of the delusion types where, as a therapist, you're less likely to want to change the whole structure.
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The sweeping grandiosity of this 19th-century narrative of history collapses into its own labyrinth, into which all the amassed digital images disappear.
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A century later, it is unlikely that we can escape the theater of grandiosity, with leaders crowding the stage for their photo op.
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Despite all the grandiosity built into the music, the result is still approachable even to those not already immersed in the metal scene.
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The joke lies in the way the little guy impersonates the big shot, laying bare the empty grandiosity of his will to power.
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When others do not see the grandiosity of what Trump sees when he looks in the mirror, they become enemies of the state.
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Set to overwrought music that frequently makes it look ridiculous, Tetley's sleek choreography balleticizes Martha Graham, mimicking Graham's grandiosity and missing her profundity.
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If Trump's grandiosity requires glitzy, Taj-like projects—a gilded W.P.A.—he could modernize the electrical grid, a colossal and long-overdue project.
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The year that I took off from writing allowed me to divest myself of grandiosity regarding the act, and its relationship to my identity.
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In many ways, it's easier for an introductory work to resist the desire for grandiosity than something that has to speak entirely for itself.
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The dress' grandiosity also made for a truly excellent photo opp with Drake, a fellow Canuck, also clad in white for the awards show.
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They expect a reprise of the Singapore summit that some saw as an exercise in Obama-like grandiosity but lacking in meaningful follow-through.
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Some people raised their eyebrows at the grandiosity of this plan, but to others it made sense, in a New York kind of way.
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The show started off making fun of the goofy grandiosity of the tech industry, but the current perception of Silicon Valley is more critical.
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If you are, after all, Donald Trump, the king of grandiosity, go for a name worthy of being Stormy Daniels's real-life co-star.
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Bono's writing has its comic qualities — messianic grandiosity, overambitious clunkers about refugees and rock 'n' roll — but that is essentially the guy's job description.
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The story of greed, grandiosity, celebrity and media proved to be a defining tale for its era as well as prescient about changes to come.
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For example, patients who commonly used power-related words like "important", "superiority" and "exploit" generally turned out to have the traits of delusions and grandiosity.
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But talking about their phobias represents something different: We want the statesmen who dominate us to be terrorized by fears whose size reflects their grandiosity.
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Narcissistic personality traits — such as grandiosity, superiority and entitlement — have been on the rise in recent years, especially among high-profile leaders and successful CEOs.
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" Meanwhile "individualism" itself is also sadly linked to "high extraversion, especially boldness and assertiveness," as well as "low agreeableness, especially low modesty and high grandiosity.
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Thrash took the grandiosity of metal, replaced chivalry and bad-boy posturing with punk's societal dread and in-your-face blasphemy, and kicked everyone's ass.
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The charitable view is that Romain Gary, the author of the book it is based on, led a life extraordinary enough to warrant the grandiosity.
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For both acts to release double or triple albums implies an inflation of ambition, claiming rock-identified standards of scale and grandiosity as their own.
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I've either wised up to or aged out of this dispiriting cycle, but now, I imagined, with a touch of grandiosity, I might stop it dead.
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We get glimpses, at moments, of how strange these beliefs are, and even those little flashes reveal some astonishing depths of curdled vengefulness and deluded grandiosity.
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Given the five-year lull in attacks on Nairobi, the Riverside massacre demonstrates both the limits of al-Shabab's abilities and the grandiosity of their ambitions.
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The musical treats Eva as an entertainer first and a politician second — with some derision for her cheap populism and grandiosity, but also with some respect.
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Along with Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders), Happy is on hand to reinforce the corporate grandiosity that is the "Avengers" hallmark.
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From my position in the gallery, reporting on the trial, it always seemed to me that Anna was entrapped by the grandiosity of her good intentions.
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Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy.
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Indeed the feeling of grandiosity that these writers report when they're high rings remarkably reminiscent of Trump's own self-descriptions in speeches, interviews, and the like.
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She then ordered that unfortunate individual to clean the comb, bespeaking a grandiosity and cruelty that is no more acceptable in her than in Mr. Trump.
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Only the lyrics establish a theme that fits their larger project of celebrating the grandiosity of American myth — specificity narrows the scope a little, that's all.
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The final potential explanation—more of a personal theory—is that being stressed itself makes narcissists feel important, which reinforces both their stress and their grandiosity.
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Michael Brook, "Brooklyn" The score for the period drama "Brooklyn" incorporates guitar and piano into sweeping orchestral moments, creating both an intimacy and a kind of grandiosity.
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Soaring mock grandiosity produces a hazy, sweeping, nostalgic feel, as if everything is taking place in a children's book befitting McCartney's narrative, at once cutesy and agonizing.
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But again, the sniffling, the grandiosity, the delusions, the pressured speech — this guy has already proven himself to be unstable, the question is: Why is he unstable?
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He rented an apartment in Union Square and met Mr. Trump, whose grandiosity he admired and who, like him, was a fixture on the city's nightclub circuit.
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" At the time, Abloh spoke of his appointment with some grandiosity, recounting that a friend had compared it to Obama being elected President—"like the same epiphany.
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It isn't just that Mitchell fans refuse to let her cocaine-fuelled grandiosity, use of racist language and imagery, or bad '80s albums damage her artistic legacy.
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It's an excellent question, and I think we need much more research in what separates out depression in paranoia and grandiosity from paranoia, or hallucinations from delusions.
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It's been 13 years since God of War arrived on PlayStation 2, a game whose sense of grandiosity, penchant for violence, and overwrought gravitas was utterly captivating.
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"I Could Have Told You," the first single from the record, was a stoic but playful reworking of Sinatra's grandiosity, quietly playful beneath the grace and smoke.
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While citing the words of others may be a weak attempt at modesty, the letter stands as an obvious effort to add grandiosity to his stature and career.
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SIEM REAP, Cambodia — The giant mural in the foyer depicting a smiling stone face offers a mere taste of the grandiosity within the new Angkor Panorama Museum here.
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Those words were uttered with a hand-waving grandiosity seemingly at odds with what some consider an anti-consumer move that may kick off a bitter standards war.
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Maybe the many soft love ballads and twitchy fucksongs that dominate Sign o' the Times suggest a similar deliverance and maybe they don't, but the grandiosity is gone.
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Nadine's closest thing to a confidant is her history teacher, Mr. Bruner (Woody Harrelson, in top form), who has a knack for deflating her grandiosity with sardonic humor.
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In the guise of a critic, Glück shows herself to be a kind of dark contemporary conscience, but she is also darkly funny about poetry's temptation toward grandiosity.
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The elements of children's music — plinking xylophones, strummed ukulele, singsong taunts — appropriately situate these dramas in the realm of childhood fantasy, where grandiosity, absurdity, and terror coexist naturally.
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Trump has relished the grandiosity of the estate, summoning potential Cabinet picks for meetings there at the same time regular members shuffle through the stately living and dining rooms.
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Because I did not twist any facts, I would be showing Bruce-like grandiosity if I claimed that I gaslighted Bruce — tricked him into believing something that wasn't true.
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"But again — the sniffing, the grandiosity, the delusions, the pressured speech — this guy has already proven himself to be unstable, the question is why is he unstable," Dean said.
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Reforming billionaires down the ages display the same bizarre mix of good and bad qualities—of grandiosity and problem-solving genius, naivety and fresh thinking, self-importance and altruism.
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In reality, the sunglasses concealed that his eyes were bright red from the large amounts of drugs he was taking — a habit the fueled his escalating paranoia and grandiosity.
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And when his annoyance at the director begins to edge into what seems like paranoia and grandiosity, you may find yourself thinking about the same transition in the Shakespeare.
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Over its jet-engine 29 minutes, this record trades in previous effort TA13OO's atmospheric, three-act grandiosity for the sonic equivalent of taking a brick straight to the head.
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These are people who have a deep need for grandiosity, to be the center of attention, who need to control others, and who lack empathy and lie without hesitation.
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Indeed, the grandiosity and highly political tone of the event will likely irk Republicans who argue that Obama opened political divides rather than healing them as he promised in 2008.
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The protocol will let Trump "rejoice in grandiosity", important to keeping relations stable, said Teng Jianqun, head of American Studies at Foreign Ministry think-tank China Institute for International Studies.
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The protocol will let Trump "rejoice in grandiosity", important to keeping relations stable, said Teng Jianqun, head of American Studies at Foreign Ministry think-tank China Institute for International Studies.
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The writing itself seems tipsy: It can be energetic, colorful, fun, buzzy, affecting and spot on, but also loose, sloppy, digressive and excessively poetized at moments, veering into nebulous grandiosity.
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It's slower, and more personal, swapping the grandiosity of, for example, tracks like "One Day Like This" off the their platinum-selling album The Seldom-Seen Kid, for quiet introspection.
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At least "Alice Through the Looking Glass" isn't saddled with formulaic Disney songs, although as its perspective grows more cosmic, Danny Elfman's score settles into a mood of overawed grandiosity.
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It's slower, and more personal, swapping the grandiosity of, for example, tracks like "One Day Like This" off the their platinum-selling album The Seldom-Seen Kid, for quiet introspection.
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Baseball is strange like that—there's something decadent and involuted about its chosen style of self-regard, a sort of doomy grandiosity that is more legitimately grandiose than legitimately doomy.
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On the throne for a quarter century by now, Henry is a very human Big Brother, not without shame but bathed in self-pity, and reaching new heights of grandiosity.
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He was quoted in a U.S. News and World Report article titled "Temperament Tantrum," saying that President Trump has malignant narcissism, which is characterized by grandiosity, sadism and antisocial behavior.
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Both Cohen's and Snowden's gregariousness can shade into garrulousness; their writing and speech teem with grandiosity and introspection, a combination that appeals to their admirers and grates on their critics.
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What seems to differentiate Jesus Is King from his sprawling Sunday Services is how truncated it feels, which in turn minimizes any sense of grandiosity and passion the live events deliver.
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Of course, it would be self-centered grandiosity to say that my haters are always right, as this would mean that I'm the worst person ever: the queen of the shits.
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And what's the piece about: a Goya-like jibe at art world grandiosity and dumbness by someone who has done very well by nibbling away at the hand that feeds him?
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Vocally Mr. Pascal's style, with its oratorical flourishes and art-rock grandiosity, evokes early David Bowie and Queen, while Mr. Rapp's steady, impassioned delivery has unadorned folk-rock simplicity and sincerity.
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"This president is no stranger to grandiosity when it comes to job claims," said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a partnership between employers and the steelworkers' union.
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The mainstream thumbnail biography for Stockhausen holds that he started out with vision and ended up with mere grandiosity, making abstruse works for the tight circle of collaborators who surrounded him.
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For a while, this was Grande's problem, especially given how her soaring soprano encourages megapop grandiosity, and so only her weirdest singles (such as the garbled, gloriously ungrammatical "Break Free") registered.
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Surely Homeland Security and the nation have more pressing needs than to advance tax revenues for a project that resonates with the grandiosity of the failed Trump casinos in Atlantic City.
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But these Jackson Pollock-scaled, overindulgently "heroic," and materially overloaded paintings and sculptures tip over into a feeling of grandiosity that neither seduces me nor engages my capacity for the imaginative.
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Even if the business lines were widely derided, their grandiosity helped Mr. Neumann cast WeWork as a tech start-up, so many of which are known to have nearly messianic mission statements.
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What I heard was dynamic and inquisitive, by turns capable of grandiosity and suspenseful quiet; but when I opened my eyes again, his right hand was a full foot above the keyboard.
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But her gift for showing you a character's interior states, for feelings that delicately brush the skin, gives Savannah a vulnerability that becomes an expressive counterpoint to Laura's grandiosity and wounded narcissism.
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It's tempting to brush Giuliani off as embarrassing, to gawk at his easy grandiosity with reporters, or to look forward to his inevitable clash with Congress as a moment of self-immolation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MINNEAPOLIS — In Naoya Hatakeyama's immense Lime Hills (Quarries Series)(1986–24003), the Japanese photographer captures the grandiosity of natural landforms blemished by the excavation of limestone.
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Outside illustration, however, there are few visual artists who have engaged in a serious effort to capture the emotional impact and grandiosity of Captain Ahab's beleaguered grudge match with the great white whale.
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In many ways, it's a slight film, so far as the grandiosity of epic space operas are concerned, and for the most part, its filmmakers seem perfectly content to operate within those parameters.
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A sweet-natured naïf with a streak of grandiosity, Marguerite is embodied by the great French actress Catherine Frot, who recently won a César, the French equivalent of an Oscar, for her performance.
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They tend to think they&aposre better than others, they tend to have a sense of entitlement and grandiosity, and that can be a huge problem for the reasons we&aposve talked about.
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It's a rare moment of calm and majesty in a show that's wrestling, in paint, with the desire to embrace the textbook grandiosity of America while acknowledging the violence and hatred underpinning it.
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Perhaps because of its built-in grandiosity, or perhaps because people really love to hear Lady Gaga sing, the first trailer for A Star Is Born has become a thing on the internet.
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Despite the difference in background and motivations for coming, the enthusiasm was widespread (if anything, those coming from the college success program were even more amazed at the sheer grandiosity of the artist's studio).
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The secret of the Fifth Republic, as Herrick Chapman details in his new history, " France's Long Reconstruction ," was that, beneath the sonorous grandiosity and medievalist rhetoric, de Gaulle's government was entirely technocratic and modernizing.
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The boomer Steve Jobs might qualify as the original disrupter, but when boomers broke the rules, there was always a sense of grandiosity and self-satisfaction — Procol Harum performing with the London Symphony Orchestra.
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LOS ANGELES — What's the only art form big enough to hold Kanye West's grandiosity, his grievances, his cast-of-thousands collaborations, his musical lushness and toughness, his religiosity, his self-appointed skill at design?
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The Wheeler Building was still an underused grandiosity in 21888, when a dry-goods merchant named Abraham Abraham had an epiphany that would transform not only his own business but all of Brooklyn retail.
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Even more unforgivable is that the banter between Lear and the Fool, which is among Shakespeare's most brilliant, is converted into hasty, sloppy grandiosity on both sides, without regard for much more than empty irony.
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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy In almost all his adventures, Nathan's personal stakes feel dwarfed by the grandiosity of the cultural histories he tramples over like a crumbling ledge on his self-aggrandizing reach for legacy.
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Other Gossip • We only get a taste of the lush, upper-crust French grandiosity that the imagery in the new credit sequence promises through the archly villainous yet well-dressed Comte St. Germain (Stanley Weber).
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Women with postpartum psychosis are sometimes depressed but more often exhibit mania, characterized by decreased need for sleep, grandiosity, and risky behavior, along with psychotic symptoms such as disorganization, confusion, and sometimes hallucinations and delusions.
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Her article's central thesis demeans Carl's scientific acumen and his character, wrongly asserting that, in his "grandiosity," he harmed the environmental movement by advancing an exaggerated theory of the long-term consequences of nuclear war.
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Almost every day of his administration so far contains sufficient grandiosity and delusion to be the end of a normal president's productive relationship with Congress and support from all but the most stubbornly blind voters.
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And there's good data showing that hearing voices is different from grandiosity, which is different from paranoia, which is different from a thought disorder—so you've got a whole breaking up of these sorts of diagnosis.
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I'm old enough to have watched, with interest, the first Super Bowl, which was no contest and no big deal; Sunday's is the 52nd, or Super Bowl LII, as befits the silly grandiosity of it all.
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For a singer of her stature and popularity, however, Ms. Norman attracted more than her share of criticism, especially during the 1990s, when her technique grew unreliable and that earlier grandeur became a kind of grandiosity.
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He displays what, in the psychiatric field, is referred to as grandiosity: a sense of superiority—revealed by the way that he speaks about himself and views his transgressive behavior—which is not grounded in reality.
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Kennedy, from the Lincolnesque funeral onward, remained in charge of her husband's image for the next thirty years, operating sometimes with taste and sometimes with grandiosity, occasionally deploying the vindictive manipulations that "Jackie" regards as her essence.
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A mouthy "rough gal" — as her father, Godwin, calls her — she can't help shooing away the interfering aunties who descend upon her to paw through her luggage any more than she can help mocking her father's grandiosity.
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We have a world of video games which demands more and more realism and cinematic grandiosity, but the byproduct of that is that it sometimes feels like there are no more gaps left for imagination to fill.
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Mr. Trump has often been compared to the right-wing Latin American populists who, like him, have used machismo, opposition to elites and personal grandiosity ("I alone can fix it," as Mr. Trump said) to win elections.
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The producer and feature credits on the album reflect an eclectic music taste, with credits that include proven rap hitmakers like Frank Dukes, who evokes a familiar grandiosity, but also Disclosure's Guy Lawrence on "Blinds," the album's highlight.
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"Stuck in the System" features stop-start orchestral samples with all the grandiosity of a Heatmakerz production, while "Pixel Rainbow Sequence" counterbalances pixelated keyboard arpeggios with a roving bassline that seems to possess a mind of its own.
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More straightforward and melodic than many of their knottier peers, Naðra channels the grandiosity, savagery, and epic, folky inflections of 90s black metallers like Borknagar or Windir, intensifying the effect with their own lo-fi, fiercely DIY approach.
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If Duncan has reached the end of his five-championship road, just weeks after Bryant went out with an overstatement of seismic grandiosity, let that be the demure big man's career epitaph: even better than what people said.
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Mr. Yates, who directed the last four movies in the "Harry Potter" franchise, slips easily between intimacy and grandiosity, and he scales up and scales down as easily as Tarzan scrambles up and down the digitally rendered trees.
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The rare sitcom that treated Southern characters with respect rather than mockery, it nevertheless took sly aim at the way Texan grandiosity collides with reality — oversize riding mowers tending modest lawns — and how outmoded ideas about masculinity endure.
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In them I see various decades of youth culture, imperfectly reflected: the footloose idealism of the '60s but not its counterculture; the skepticism of the '90s but not its disaffection; the technophilia of the aughts but not its grandiosity.
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But no move was so naked and downright nutsy as Uber investor Shervin Pishevar's public call-to-arms, a statement that addressed (in mind-boggling grandiosity) the legal battle between ex-CEO Travis Kalanick and the ridehail company's board.
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Their strategy balances elements that code "classic rock" and would sound corny on their own, like tuneful grandiosity and major-key chords and unfrenzied drumming, against elements that code "punk," like amplifier static and dirty recording and frenzied singing.
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When Finnish photographer Markus Henttonen first visited LA in the winter of 2011, he was struck by the holiday light displays that dominated the city's suburban front yards with much more grandiosity than those he was used to back home.
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Even Iran's critics marvel at the grandiosity of the Iranian vision, with its mixture of political and military power in Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and other countries, including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and even Nigeria, where an unarmed franchise of Hezbollah operates.
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But if the NFL Draft has to be somewhere, it might as well be in downtown Chicago, amid the antique grandiosity of the Loop's towering and broad-shouldered monuments to the business glory of the first half of the last century.
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Starlite recalled meeting with a psychiatrist who cited the symptoms of a manic episode ("exaggerated self-esteem and grandiosity") to imply that his conviction to emulate the achievements of James Brown and Michael Jackson was a manifestation of his delusion.
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They may eat more vegetables, but this age seems more narcissistic than any before, more beholden to snake oil, and has put many individuals in the grip of an uneasy self-image toggling between unrealistic grandiosity and soul-crushing envy.
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Big Heads Cardboard Cutout (3-ft), available on Amazon, from $44.99This terrifying cardboard cutout has all the dazzle and grandiosity of a surprise flight to Paris, with the low price that fits a shoestring budget and/or a new relationship.
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So while it would be unethical for a psychiatrist to say that President Trump has narcissistic personality disorder, he or she could discuss common narcissistic character traits, like grandiosity and intolerance of criticism, and how they might explain Mr. Trump's behavior.
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Additionally, though, there was something magnetically frenetic about it all, the high-speed combat merging with the grandiosity of the setting to build a kind of high-action ballet: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by way of the old-school beat-em-up.
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But that seems not quite apt: Children and their stories are much stranger and more interesting than the superhero industry, which sells a mix of grandiosity, moral certainty and performance anxiety (in the endless origin stories, especially) that belongs essentially to early adolescence.
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At a time when the car was built with a lot of strong materials, grandiosity, especially in the 50s in terms of the automobile, these big heavy cars... I mean, we have big heavy cars now, but they are just so ugly.
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Working in combinations of sound, social critique, music, spoken word, painting, dance, video and slide projection, the artists of "Open Plan" have all made distinctive use of the fifth floor's wonderfully proportioned space — never making it seem overwhelming, never stooping to grandiosity.
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Over the four decades after "Little House in the Big Woods" appeared, Rose Wilder Lane traveled back and forth from crippling depression to grandiosity, rage to aggressive helpfulness in a way that can't help but suggest a hindsight diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
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We have found ample evidence of his instability and grandiosity in the president's own words and public statements, most recently confirmed in his referring to "my great and unmatched wisdom," coupled with yet another threat to "totally destroy and obliterate" a foreign country.
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It doesn't take a psychoanalyst (although I am one) to see a dangerous behavioral pattern in President Trump: It's not just truth but national safety that are slain on the altar of his grandiosity and need to shore up his self-esteem.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "A President's Ill-Informed Grandiosity" (Critic's Notebook, July 31), about President Trump's extolling Western culture by saying, "We write symphonies": It was appalling to hear Mr. Trump invoke the Western musical tradition in furtherance of his Islamophobic agenda.
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In December, a Huffington Post article featured a letter written by three prominent psychiatry professors that cited President Trump's "grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality" as evidence of his mental instability.
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It may be easier to grasp from some photo-collages here, but the video conveys the grandiosity of Matta-Clark's vision, the fearlessness it required and the solidity of the building being torn apart; 16th-century floor beams are something to behold.
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People who have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) tend to act with grandiosity and self-importance, with a fixation on unlimited success, control, brilliance, or beauty, among many other things, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the manual used to diagnose mental disorders.
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And what I saw in Saturday's rant — his long, seemingly impromptu speech at a Sacramento concert about everything from Donald Trump to how Beyoncé supposedly rigged the VMAs — were behaviors consistent with mental illness, including possible grandiosity, paranoia, flight of ideas, and delusions of persecution.
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Narcissists have an insatiable need for flattery, for inflated self-worth and importance and for status symbols (big jets, buildings with TRUMP emblazoned across the top) that typically address tremendous feelings of weakness, fear and vulnerability that lie underneath all the bluster and grandiosity.
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Which of course is a feat unto itself, as the first film grossed over $700 million, but Hader recently told IndieWire that he had seen "a good chunk" of the sequel and compared it's grandiosity to the epic fantasy film, Lord of the Rings.
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Her time in the psych ward is bleak, and there's a moment in the show's second season when in the midst of one of Bamford's episodes of "euphoric grandiosity," as Schlozman describes it, her partner suggests he may need some time away from her.
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Somewhat lost in the overall grandiosity of the win and the roiling debate about the lopsided score put up by an elite team against a squad of semiprofessionals, then, was the manner in which several individual players asserted themselves and quickly found their footing.
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The leagues themselves can be confused in their understanding of how valuable this is, and confusing in how they try to sell it back to us; think of the NFL's towering and risible corporate grandiosity or the prickly falseness college football's righteous con artistry.
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And as they were doing so, the object of their adoration was giving an endless, rambling, third-world-dictator-style speech, full of lies, that veered between grandiosity and self-pity, interspersed with complaints about how many times he has to flush his toilet.
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Peel away the grandiosity and usually what you'll find is just a genre: contemporary social novel, set in one or more major cities, with a large cast of unhappy, mostly young, middle- or upper-class characters who emotionally develop in some not-too-traumatic way.
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The movement sought to displace the grandiosity of stoic, towering, phallic monuments (a style frequently used by authoritarians), with a form of memorialization that focuses more on archival and exhibitionist elements, on public art that activates public discourse, rather than immovable objects plopped in public space.
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One of the studies we've done as a research group just a while ago, indicated that there's a lot of shared overlap, but there might be even greater emotional processing leading to paranoia and there might be a bit more skewing in reasoning processing in grandiosity.
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"Sometimes you just want to cry because they are so desperate," she said, and she has seen their loneliness manifest in all sorts of ways, from misplaced romance ("In two days they are telling you they love you") to false grandiosity (many tell her they're famous rappers).
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Compared to her earlier work, which was often defined by its eccentric complexity, Shimomura's music has now come to be associated with a grandiosity straight out of Hollywood, fueled by big emotions and a regal sense of drama befitting of the huge theaters she now fills.
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Les Chants du Hasard goes all in on neoclassical grandiosity, shunning traditional rock instrumentation like guitar, drums, and bass altogether in favor of orchestral instruments, coupled with the kind of unhinged, emotive howls that helped characterize 90s black metal genre-busters like Ved Buens Ende, Fleurety, and Arcturus.
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While it's easy to make fun of the slogan's grandiosity (as plenty on the right have been doing) and all the hard consonant alliteration, it is difficult to fault the sentiment in the same week that our president publicly branded the press the enemy of the American people.
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We know what to expect from these events at this point — their grandiosity and grand language is de rigueur and fodder for memes, and the meat of the announcement is almost always spoiled on tech sites the week before, hinted at or leaked or just really easy to guess.
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The mammoth "Forest, Subsists as a Tomb" serves up shades of YOB-ish grandiosity, its wooly grooves held up by pained visions of a fractured world, while impossibly heavy album opener "Water, Tinted Gold and Tainted Copper" ushers in the apocalypse with gentle birdsong and spoken word before dropping the bombs.
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"Through my reading, the mythohistorical conception I had of my country in grade school—from 1938 to 1946—began to be divested of its grandiosity by its unraveling into the individual threads of American reality the wartime tapestry that paid moving homage to the country's idealized self-image," he says.
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Through my reading, the mytho-historical conception of my country that I had developed in grade school, from 1938 to 1946, began to be divested of its grandiosity and to unravel into the individual threads of American reality the wartime tapestry that paid moving homage to the country's idealized self-image.
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When you think about what it means to be a humble narcissist that research says it&aposs possible to couple the bold vision, the grandiosity, with a constant desire to improve and overcome your shortcomings, and if you can do that, that actually can make you a really effective leader.
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I've no idea if Lowell knew of Jaynes's book, which had come out the year before, but Achilles was a figure of lifelong importance to him, one of many historical and mythical figures—Alexander the Great, Dante, T. S. Eliot, Christ—with whom he identified in moments of delusional grandiosity.
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Still, his critical observations are measured and nuanced, if not correct, although readers who worship the Boss may grumble at his preference for the supple, street-kid Bruce Springsteen who made the scene prior to "Born to Run," the 1975 breakthrough album faulted by Hajdu for its "grandiosity" and "cartoonish" vision.
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When a video called Lu Yang Power of Will (2016) shows this inflatable head floating in the sky, the comedic tension it achieves between constriction and grandiosity is lost, and all one can think about is how much money Lu must have spent to lift her cartoon self into the blue yonder.
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Both critics and electronic music heads at the time liked to treat it as a punchline, thinking of its arena rock-style grandiosity and love for euphoric drops as garish, predictable, and cheesy—"the boy-band of the electronic subgenre," as one commenter on the Ars Technica open forum put it in 296.
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Well over life-sized, these sketches are the only works of Oehlen's in the show whose image does not justify the size: the jutting lines and insistent color blocks in works like "Untitled (Baum 64)," and "Untitled (Strassen)" are strengthened by their grandiosity, while the diaphanous line work of the sketches feels weighed down.
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As the lead singer and songwriter for the War on Drugs, one of the least likely breakout acts of this decade, Mr. Granduciel has taken an old-fashioned concept — the rangy, six-string-centric American band, steeped in reverence and grandiosity — and made it newly relevant, with more guitar solos than narrative or musical gimmicks.
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You should savor its grandiosity — it has references to the dawn of homo sapiens, the twilight of the Judeo-Christian order, Edmund Burke, James Madison — so that you can understand his current overreach, born of his certainty that he knows better than the rest of the body politic and is called to heal us.
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Upon his election, some of the foremost psychiatrists in the country began raising alarm bells in letters to (among others) then president Barack Obama, the New York Times, and New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene warning about the paranoia, grandiosity, delusions, narcissism, and abusive, violent, and exploitative tendencies they saw in the country's incoming president.
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On the very same panel as Marshall on Wednesday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich—a top Trump adviser—continued his deification of the president-elect, declaring with characteristic grandiosity that "the basic radicalism of Trumpism is dramatically greater than Reagan was in 1980 or we were in 1994," referring to the Republican revolution he led in Congress.
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It's easy to choose that grandiosity—not just the belief that their pain was more painful than anyone else's, but the certainty of that belief, and the attendant faith that this is something you might want to hear about—as the reason that Boston sports fans are the most universally beloved fan community in American life.
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Her provocative affront to the taboos imposed upon Arab and Muslim women, her shattering of the shame that surrounds our sexualities and bodies, her frank display of abuse, obscenity and failure, liberates the genre from its grandiosity, imagining a gospel of the mundane that reflects the mortality and fragility in each and every one of us.
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Her signature mood contradiction is that between heart and machine — there's a bionic, nearly antiseptic quality to the record that firmly transfers it from chartpop territory to the land of the Chromatics, who share with Shura a sweeping grandiosity undercut by musical artifice, yet at the same time her breathy vocals ache and yearn with fierce pathos.
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The definition that obtains among our current economy's ruling superclass—the chill California billionaires who lend each other money and spend their days in endless informational interviews and periodically bequeath disruptions to those of us below—has little to do with actually telling a story, and much more to do with the metastatic grandiosity of how that community explains its success to itself.
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Francesa is far from the only grandiose egomaniac in sports talk radio, but there is a filigreed intricacy to his grandiosity that is unlike any other; the man is so strenuously over it and above it all in his self-presentation and performance that he can barely even be bothered to talk about sports on his five-hour sports-talk show.
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Draw up a list of the 2000s' most potent singles and the Thin White Duke's influence will be made plain—the Bond-3000 grandiosity of "Toxic," the robot fashion show of "Bad Romance," the shorted-out sexuality of "Last Nite," the sax fantasia of "Run Away with Me," the funked-up syncopations and meticulous detail of Missy Elliott's highest points.
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" One World ," a best-seller about the journey, soon followed, and Lewis does not exaggerate when he says that the account, written with the help of Irita Van Doren, became "the most influential book published in the United States during World War II." Reading its thin wartime-paper pages today, one is touched by their sincerity—and amused by their grandiosity.
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Being able to catch rising technical black metal stars Zhrine on the mainstage and see black/death stalwarts Angist reborn in black and white at Egilsbúð was worth the trip alone, without even mentioning Sólstafir's perennial grandiosity, World Narcosis' abrasive blasts of hardcore, grind, noise, and doom, and, of course, Urðun's lovingly satirical (and immensely satisfying) 90s death metal tribute—spiked codpiece and all.
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Its Academy Award-nominated title song, with sweeping Hollywood grandiosity, an Ennio Morricone-esque choral arrangement and bizarre whip-crack sound effects, mirrors the exaggerated tone of the rest of film, which stars Gene Wilder as a down-and-out ex-gunslinger, Cleavon Little as an African-American sheriff in a town full of bigoted dim-wits, and Madeline Kahn as a dancer with a speech impediment.
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" Finally, trumpeted Freud, "Man's craving for grandiosity is now suffering the third and most bitter blow from present-day psychological research, which is endeavoring to prove to the 'ego' of each one of us that he is not even master in his own house, but that he must remain content with the veriest scraps of information about what is going on unconsciously in his own mind.
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Producer Kontrix's beats — which combine synthesized strings, power chords, sinister showoff lead guitar, giant slabs of slammed electronic boom, and, on "Metal Rising," a massed choir — recall prior hip-hop accompaniment less than they do Kavinsky, the Star Wars soundtrack (prequels only) interpreted for synthesizer, and any music imbued with the sort of grandiosity whereby a hero has only four minutes to save the world.
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The NFL's humorlessness and soaring grandiosity means that every week is talked about this way, which is why we get all those jarring and accidentally hilarious mismatches between tone and meaning throughout the season—a black-clad Carrie Underwood groaning "oh Sunday night" with church-y solemnity before every Sunday Night Football broadcast, right before two teams launch into a four-hour puntfight that ends in a 6-6 tie.
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It is not what I would call a good book, although its combination of cornball macho grandiosity ("I've always contended that I psychologically beat Jordan") and crocodile-tear smarm—Esquinas said he wrote the book because "it was right for my recovery from my addiction to gambling and the right way to reach out to a friend I perceived had the same problem"—it probably qualifies as ahead of its time.
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But the venue—an anonymous press conference room deep in the bowels of the institutional labyrinth that is the UN headquarters—stood in stark contrast to the grandiosity on the other side of the building, as scores of world leaders, dignitaries, and assorted A-listers celebrated Earth Day by standing in front of each other in a cathedral-like space and pledging to not let the world burn.
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Instead, let the grandiosity of it all just wash over you; let the wine and the pouting be your armor against the cruelties of the world; let Olivia's jacket wardrobe be your North Star as you search for a better way to live; let Mellie's wigs inspire you to be who you dreamed you'd be; let Cyrus's vocal affectations remind you that anyone who would treat you badly doesn't deserve your love.
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More often, however, Hickey casts spells and then breaks them, either by falling too hard for grandiosity ("the sheer appropriateness of [Sharon] Ellis's paintings in Southern California at the dawn of the twenty-first century speaks directly to the problematic of Protestant postmodernism in temperate latitudes and cosmopolitan cultures where neither industrial modernism, Freudian psychology, nor Puritan rigor have ever expressed themselves with much cultural resonance") or embarking on overly nostalgic tangents about the lost underground ("Absolute permission died when the 'art world' became the 'art community' around 1975 … when we all started intervening, and nursing on another, with or without permission").
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