I find myself moving in the direction of
egomania, but not just any kind of
egomania, "spiritual
egomania." And I am cheered on by the godless consumer spiritualism of my society.
Yes, like chocolate, coffee, sex, shopping, religion, television,
egomania, violence, arrogance and on and on.
Wilson's terminal
egomania played a significant role in thwarting those designs, as did the unfettered greed of European statesmen eager to feast on Germany's corpse.
He played mean, he played nasty, he played coolly sneering blurts of sound, and even when he played beautifully, it seemed he was commenting on beauty rather than lending it voice, that at the core of every melody was a disaffection that rendered beauty irrelevant, an attitude increasingly informed by a politics compounded of anger and heroin and
egomania. During those years his face shriveled from a griot's aloof mask to a black wizard's skull with a Sphinx hairdo.
Lindsey's appreciation for Saddam's
egomania is fully justified.
Maybe that is not eccentricity, just senile
egomania.
Nixon, their nemesis, is driven by
egomania, paranoia, and other psychological disorders.
But this time around, it's
egomania rather than moneymania that's making the financial world go round...and round and round -- right down the toilet.
In a June column, he referred to himself five times in the first four sentences: "I am," "I eschew," "I would," "I have," "I will." As the summer rolled on, the
egomania worsened.
Ignorance of client wishes, inaction to client requests, or just massive contractor
egomania are key factors in contractors losing their contracts.
But anyone who dreams of raising the standards of journalism would be well advised to cater to the
egomania of reporters.
Producer and director Sean Grundy promises: "We Are History combines the incidental, cumulative humour of People Like Us with the
egomania of Alan Partridge to be a must-see, anti-history of the last 2000 years."
