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  • n  an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs

  • Having failed as an actor in New York, he takes his special brand of egomania over to professional wrestling.
  • In the modern world Swift's egomania is translated into "two nations, the rich and the poor, walking to their death in opposed hordes, bound together by a cannibalistic greed .
  • So Herod expressed his egomania by adding a 35-acre platform "the greatest ever heard of," writes Josephuson which the Temple could sit.
News & Articles

  • The Swedish Serial Killer That Maybe Wasn't
    If you read anything this morning, it should be Chris Heath's stirring profile in GQ of a Swedish serial killer who has been locked up in a mental hospital for the last 23 years for committing at least eight gruesome, sexually violent murders — but the catch is the killer may have cooperated with authorities too eager to solve the cases in order to fuel his own egomania and drug addiction.
    July 29, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
  • The Swedish Serial Killer Who Maybe Wasn't
    If you read anything this morning, it should be  Chris Heath's stirring profile in  GQ  of a Swedish serial killer  who has been locked up in a mental hospital for the last 23 years for committing at least eight gruesome, sexually violent murders — but the catch is the killer may have cooperated with authorities too eager to solve the cases in order to fuel his own egomania and drug addiction ...
    July 29, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire
Quotes

  • Wayne Swan in Sydney Morning Herald
    The book was "an exercise in egomania if ever I've seen one", Mr Swan writes. "On the one hand, he is claiming credit for anything that went well - but blames John Howard for the negatives."
  • Wolff in Sydney Morning Herald
    Without sounding too harsh, it's an egomania,Wolff says.
  • Riordan Roett in La Voce di Fiore
    He is beginning to overreach, wanting to be involved in everything,said Riordan Roett, director of Latin American studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. "It'sa matter of egomania at work here."

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