He doesn't start out as a rampaging narcissist and megalomaniac.
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"To my mind, this lady was a megalomaniac," he said finally.
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" He had received "a doctorate in megalomaniac studies from Trump University.
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The United States has a safeguard against a megalomaniac: the constitutional system.
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Interestingly, he hates Trump with a passion, describing him as a megalomaniac.
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Picture this: Washington, D.C., is ruled by a thin-skinned, paranoid megalomaniac.
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Trump is a megalomaniac, in addition to many, many other awful things.
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The megalomaniac communist government has increased debt 8.53 times since the year 2000.
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He was compared favorably to Trump, which will surely needle the insecure megalomaniac.
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A few weeks ago, the show positioned Kellyanne Conway as a power-hungry megalomaniac.
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Beware the Ides of March, and a megalomaniac spending too much time on Twitter.
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"Maybe I'm a megalomaniac, I don't know," he told reporters of his latest film.
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It does not take a paranoid megalomaniac to feel these working conditions are unsustainable.
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Cooper knew that and, being a megalomaniac, believed it was an incredibly validating thing.
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Is Melania a dupe who awakens one day to find herself married to a megalomaniac?
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He's never seen a negative story about our megalomaniac-in-chief that he couldn't dismiss.
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So, is O'Rourke more like a punk rocker, or a megalomaniac former coffee shop CEO?
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To them, Ryder isn't a megalomaniac, and Sir Topham Hatt of "Thomas" isn't a neocolonial autocrat.
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In the television show, though, he's a religious megalomaniac who is convinced of his divine destiny.
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" Weld called Trump a "sick man," a "malignant narcissist," and a "megalomaniac" with "profound autocratic tendencies.
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That movie had hoverboards and an alternate reality where a megalomaniac becomes rich by cheating at life.
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KEITH OLBERMANN, "THE RESISTANCE"/GQ, JUNE 27: The Republican Party is now actively shielding this treasonous megalomaniac.
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Eventually, Jon Snow realizes he's stupid, and stabs his megalomaniac aunt/lover/queen/etc to death. Sad!
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He even patterned Cobra Commander, a megalomaniac in thrall to his own tirades, after William F. Buckley.
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If the performance typecast him as a roguish megalomaniac, there was still no shortage of roles for Boothe.
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A megalomaniac obsessed with branding, Ford has built a world filled with people he can do anything to.
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This takes us back to our initial point, and leaves us suspecting Big Sam is a raging megalomaniac.
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If Musk is the megalomaniac billionaire who dreams of colonizing Mars (and dying there), Unsworth is his antithesis.
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Yes, "we the people" will be the ones who will stop this increasingly arrogant, abusive and megalomaniac president.
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But Camilla, a megalomaniac in a bright red outfit, is as far over-the-top as any Bond villain.
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In 2002's S83mone, a megalomaniac director conjures a computer-generated actress, passing her off as the real thing.
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I am once again living in a country with a supremely unstable government, with a megalomaniac at its head.
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Jesse Plemons, who plays an unassuming megalomaniac in the episode, appeared as Todd Alquist alongside Paul in Breaking Bad.
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It took us years to find out that, despite that deep, reassuring voice, Dick Cheney was a demented megalomaniac.
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Arpaio shares many of the megalomaniac traits that the president has, Woods said, adding he was Arizona's version of Trump.
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"He was a bit of a megalomaniac," conceded Fabrizio Bisconti, the superintendent in charge of catacombs for the pontifical commission.
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Both movies also have greedy megalomaniac guys with a curious, ill-advised penchant for the teeth of their conquered prey.
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In the Dominican Republic Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, a brutal megalomaniac, arranged things to secure between 90% and 100% of the vote.
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To do that, the family would need not just a promoter or businessman, they would need megalomaniac bent on world domination.
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But even a megalomaniac like Mr. Kim understands that unleashing them would spell a hellish end to him and his country.
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"It's quite another to agree on what to do about the megalomaniac mausoleum that he built to his own victory and glory."
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What Will Ferrell's Mugatu was in "Zoolander," Carrey's Robotnik is in "Sonic the Hedgehog" — a megalomaniac with an aggressively silly sense of style.
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Trump, by comparison, is a massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies, devoid of everything but the hollow ideology of a megalomaniac.
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That's why so many outsize schemes and megalomaniac ambitions were hatched in Haiti, because it is a place where nobody ever says no.
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Jones, a three-time Super Bowl winner who is a Hall of Famer, responds like the honest megalomaniac he is: Hall of Fame.
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In Matthew, he enters a world of political turmoil: Herod the Great was a tyrant, a megalomaniac, and yet easily threatened by a child.
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As the megalomaniac tech mogul hell-bent on bringing our heroes to their knees, the actor is a grating cartoon of manic motormouth tics.
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He's consistently stood up to him, calling him a "megalomaniac strongman" and refusing to say whether or not he even considers Trump an adult.
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Still, many remain faithful that to dance music can have to evoke change and foster a sense of community that no single megalomaniac can disrupt.
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The vitriol aimed at Taylor is in response to the commencement speech she gave at Hampshire College wherein she called Trump a racist, sexist megalomaniac.
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Touring around Asia with your megalomaniac husband sure is fun, but if you stand next to a huge K-Pop star, prepare to be ignored.
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"The undemocratic and megalomaniac style of stopping government advertisement is a message to media from this government to toe its line," Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said.
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We have rewarded the 30-second sound bite, the well-manicured press release, and now we're left trying to decipher the riddled ramblings of a megalomaniac.
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"While I recognize that the campaign rule book has been thrown out in the Mar-a-Lago trash, we're talking about a megalomaniac here," she said.
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The net result: Erdogan is poised to remain in power until at least 2028, with a deeper megalomaniac desire to expand his regional footprint at others' expense.
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You have to thread a fine needle to be an effective CEO, and that is, you have to be a megalomaniac that has your ego in check.
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In the Vulture, the MCU has delivered its best big bad in years – and he's all the more riveting because he's not your typical scenery-chewing megalomaniac.
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Orm sounds perfectly reasonable when he's plotting his revenge on the toxic, imperialist humans, but he's also a megalomaniac who really wants people to call him Ocean Master.
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"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," he told The Guardian.
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WATCH: 23 Oscar Nominees Reveal The Untold Stories Behind Their Films If the performance typecast him as a roguish megalomaniac, there was still no shortage of roles for Boothe.
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In a media climate where West is prominently seen as a megalomaniac superstar, it's important for the average person to understand the narrative that led him toward that point.
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Featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary—certainly more than are expected on known megalomaniac Ocean's unreleased album—Snake's full-length debut shakes the foundations of multiple genres.
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If you have ever wondered what it would be like to be represented by a wild-eyed megalomaniac—minus the flowing robes and abundant military medals—take a look. .
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Right Wingers This trend has enjoyed much recent longevity within the megalomaniac community—think, Donald Trump, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Julian Assange—which suggests a definite undercurrent of status symbolism involved.
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While Sailor Moon seems like a sure bet—she fights for love and justice after all—the vampiric megalomaniac Dio from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure seems more like a Bloomberg guy.
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But it is above all Eukodal that Ohler sees as the key to Hitler's ever more implausible megalomaniac overconfidence and buoyancy in the face of one military setback after another.
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In his first movie performance, "A Face in the Crowd" (1957), a young Griffith plays the role of a megalomaniac media sensation with political aspirations gone quickly out of control.
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Generally speaking, creating a miniature world filled with tiny people is the sign of a megalomaniac who's lost the plot, a power trying to legitimize itself and flesh out its mythologies.
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The short video sees Stiller back in character as megalomaniac gym manager White Goodman, while Taylor reprises her role as Kate Veatch, a lawyer who is constantly fighting off Goodman's unwanted advances.
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Just as the West contained an aggressive East in the 20th century, orderism believes the East must now contain a megalomaniac and arrogant West to prevent the spread of even more chaos.
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As a megalomaniac, Trump can't acknowledge fault or the need to improve himself, so he lays blame for his failures on foes instead: the Fake News media, disloyal Republicans, or whiny Democrats.
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The Our First 100 Days project began on the day that Donald Trump, a racist, misogynistic megalomaniac with a waning grip on reality, was sworn is as President of the United States.
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Garmadon, who wants to be a mayor, is a megalomaniac whose regular assaults on peace and normalcy are breathlessly covered by the news media and whose favorite pastime is firing his underlings.
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Heba Y. Amin films herself as a megalomaniac politician who envisions an African-Asian-European supercontinent; her fantasy appears tasteless when broadcast alongside speeches by real world leaders with actual malign designs.
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Regardless of how you feel about her father — who is a misogynistic megalomaniac who might very well destroy this country if he's elected president — this fucked-up parental-leave system isn't her fault.
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If he doesn't self-destruct on his own merit, I guaranteed this branding would stick, eat away at his megalomaniac ego, cut him down to size, and leverage the election away from him.
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The events of 11/2 and all the subsequent squidfalls were a hoax, perpetrated by a narcissistic megalomaniac who believed he was the only person capable of bringing about and maintaining world peace.
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And Kezia, who left her middle-management job at a prestigious jewelry company to work for a megalomaniac pop art jewelry designer, is trying to hide the fact that she hates her job.
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Meanwhile, the cat is stuck with a megalomaniac who has to be ordered to take care of its basic needs while dressing it up in a series of cute costumes to gain collateral sympathy.
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For his third appearance as Bond — in a film that was nominated for three Academy Awards — Moore had to team up with a sexy Russian spy to battle a megalomaniac underwater, in a supertanker.
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When people are overconfident, unaware of their limitations, and when they display grandiose and megalomaniac aspirations, they often come across as competitive, tough and leader-like, even in the absence of actual leadership talents.
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CK: Well, and this goes back to your comment earlier about the sort of megalomania of being an entrepreneur and the self-perpetuating you are megalomaniac in the community and the world reinforces that.
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They are beloved of megalomaniac bosses keen to prove they can run empires peddling anything from train carriages to CT scanners (as Siemens currently does, albeit not, as it announced last week, for much longer).
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" Line by line, the document tore Ackman open, depicting a merciless megalomaniac who "uses philanthropy to deflect critics" and is "inclined to arrogant, haughty, disdainful, condescending, patronizing behavior and attitudes that he seeks to mask.
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Eligia embodies values that neither her megalomaniac husband nor her country seem interested in: a faith in slow, rational progress; deep skepticism toward the cult of personality; a refusal to rely on grand emotional gestures.
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Politics lurks throughout and part of the pleasure of reading an anthology of this kind lies in biographical notes like this one: 'History records the patricidal Emperor Yang as a megalomaniac and a vicious character.
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The series stars Brian Cox as Logan Roy, a megalomaniac oligarch who enjoys playing mind games with his children about who will inherit his empire as much as he does basking in his own success.
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As a speech by a megalomaniac woman attempting to bamboozle half a million people, it is right on the button; it is meant to be low on content and high on emotion, just like Evita herself.
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The masterly story, which closely resembles the real-life case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, "enters the mind of a megalomaniac who conflates his own ruin with that of the European economy," Andrew Sean Greer said here.
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That's right—Harvey has somehow made it all the way to the top of the Department of Justice, thanks to his former boss, apparent new leader of the free world, and "megalomaniac billionaire" Phil Ken Sebben.
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I suppose the post-credits scene ties into both Doctor Manhattan and Adrian Veidt's stories in that even a huge megalomaniac like Veidt grows tired of endless adulation, essentially bored with the life of a god.
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The Minnesota lawmaker and "Saturday Night Live" veteran said he knew Trump was a "right-wing megalomaniac" because he earned a doctorate in "megalomania studies" from Trump University, the program that has prompted fraud claims against Trump.
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" The article's author, Nash Riggins, added unequivocally that "it's been 365 days since a clueless megalomaniac sailed past a gaggle of dedicated, career politicians and was foolishly handed the keys to the most powerful office on the planet.
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So it's a bit of an open question whether this deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg, which went viral last summer — seemingly showing the Facebook founder speaking like a megalomaniac — would stay up or not under the new policy.
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The film stars Ray Wise as Alec Holland, a scientist whose covert, government-funded work on the untapped potential of plant life — as both a food source and a bioweapon — draws the attention of a megalomaniac, Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan).
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For some, the impending inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump will serve as a grand celebration—while many others see it as a clear sign that the total collapse of civilized society at the hands of an unhinged megalomaniac is nigh.
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There is the demagogic, megalomaniac Republican front-runner who simply appears to be winging it, just as surprised as the rest of us that he has duped enough people to position himself to have a strong chance of securing the nomination.
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Hofstadter describes the paranoid style as made up of certain preoccupations and fantasies: the megalomaniac view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the attribution of gigantic and demonic powers to the adversary.
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"Finance Ministers have trimmed down Emmanuel Macrons megalomaniac ideas for a euro zone budget back to a realistic size," said Markus Ferber, the German Coordinator in the European Parliaments Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee for the biggest centre-right party, EPP.
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No one should presume to know another person's faith, but it is a statement of fact that Trump is a thrice-married megalomaniac who is certain in his infallibility and has mangled Bible verses when he's tried to read them out loud.
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Confused though the particulars of his "heroine addiction" are, his tree-huffing doggishness recedes whenever he rhymes his feminist-curious yearnings, and if his politics are too Aleister Crowley, at least he's down with the Beatles' psychedelic seer rather than Zeppelin's megalomaniac.
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" Over a crisp, restless 5/4 beat and a flexible chord structure, the mandolinist Chris Thile sings the monologue of a megalomaniac, one who boasts, "Write me a law and I'll rise above it/Give me hell and I'll make a helluva deal.
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Labeling Trump a narcissist, psychopath, megalomaniac or attention-impaired, or all of the above, might feel explanatory, but even when armed with the best psychoanalytic insights, we have no idea what he will do when presented with a new or unforeseen circumstance.
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And it's easy to find critical voices: There are plenty who say his art is that of a megalomaniac, that it consists of grand gestures and little else, that it is hollow and empty and perhaps not art at all but kitsch.
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Indeed, we rightly cringe at the megalomaniac entreaties (such as, kill drug dealers and "I'll give you a medal") of military strongman, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who incites, and has himself been directly linked to mass extrajudicial killings of Filipinos for non-violent drug crimes.
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Out of the nine presidential campaigns I've covered, I've never seen anything as absurd as the motley crew of Trump advisers agonizing over how to delicately, in soothing tones, tiptoe up to the proudly uninformed megalomaniac and broach the topic of more rigorous debate prep.
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The megalomaniac in the White House may be holding much of the government ransom over his border wall plan, costing the economy billions of dollars, while his administration is hobbled by the Russia investigation, but the root cause is not a glaring lack of ambition.
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"Was he some kind of genius or someone who was a megalomaniac?" asks Barbat, the government heritage director, who adds that opinion about Viollet-le-Duc has changed markedly since the 221s, with growing acknowledgment that his changes have become part of the cathedral's history.
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"The outer shell of the marvelous construction that is Ivanka encloses a woman who has sublimated a childhood of trauma as the daughter of a megalomaniac," she writes, "whose very public antics exposed his family to humiliation in the greatest sex scandal of the late twentieth century."
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Boy gets key, boy sees monster, boy whacks monster with key until a heart pops out, boy continues to do so until the metaphorical/literal heart of the universe is safe from the time-traveling wizard megalomaniac with several backup bodies and a squad of leather daddies.
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Not only did Ms. Manning violate her oath by assuming the right to determine what classified information should be made public, but she also did so in cooperation with a megalomaniac who would go on to play an outsize role ensuring Mr. Trump's defeat of Hillary Clinton.
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Senate Democrats are acting as if the president is "a traditional Republican who respects the norms of governing and not a deeply disturbed, deeply ignorant megalomaniac," Dan Pfeiffer, the former senior adviser and communications director for President Obama, said Thursday on his new podcast, Pod Save America.
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Rather than deny the facts, Zuckerberg actually doubles down on the idea that he needs help running his Facebook page, and despite his reputation as an often robotic megalomaniac, his Facebook posts are very "authentic" and, yes, he does do some of them all by himself, thank you very much!
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Trieu does get to give a big, satisfying speech to the leaders of Cyclops before wiping them out — or most of the speech, anyway — but when she steps into that chamber, ready to absorb Dr. Manhattan's essence, she's just another narcissist and megalomaniac whose powers are not to be trusted.
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The lengthy bulletin teeters tonally between the actually sort of quite nice pitter patter of painless platitudes, and the kind of genuinely terrifyingly megalomaniac business speak adopted by precocious AS business studies students who've watched an episode or ten too many of The Apprentice and have decided that they'll retire at the age of 35 after 14 years at Goldman Sachs.
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As a person, I can't help but judge Khilji – I think he's an evil guy, and I mean the Khilji in the script; but when I am playing him, I am convinced of my reality, that I am a megalomaniac, a narcissist hell bent on world domination and I genuinely believe that I can have everything I want because I am the chosen one.
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But it's easy to suspend your disbelief in sheer enjoyment at Pavone's use of language, not to mention a James Bond-worthy itinerary that takes the otherwise ink-stained wretch from Brooklyn to Paris by way of Dublin, a Russian billionaire's yacht and a remote village in Iceland, as he evades a variety of secret-service types, enforcers and that even more frightening contemporary golem, the megalomaniac businessman.
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If you woke up this morning looking for more proof of the absurdity of the global war on drugs or the madness of electing a megalomaniac with a hard-on for "law and order" to be president of your country or even if you were just searching for another reason to hate Manny Pacquaio, the news out of the Philippines this week is everything you could have hoped for.
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