mythomania

But in the astonishing performance of Mr. Rylance (who won a Tony Award last year for "Boeing-Boeing"), he becomes a figure of grandeur, a man both poisoned and exalted by his own mythomania.

Gershon Hepner: Whose Feet in Ancient Times? 2009

But this is not about leadership, it's about personality -- Rock star style, mythomania placed on a man from virtually nowhere.

Tom Hayden: The New Phase for Obama, Clinton and the Rest of Us 2008

I imagine, with an éclat of fat and a frenzy of mythomania

Archive 2008-07-01 Lemon Hound 2008

I remain a bit mystified by the mythomania surrounding her; perhaps she was a dynamic teacher or reader, and it stems from her having worked the poetry circuit a lot or something.

Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2006

I imagine, with an éclat of fat and a frenzy of mythomania

Vanessa Place, Round One Lemon Hound 2008

Arendt's analysis seems remarkably prescient about Rove's and Bush's mythomania:

John Seery: Bush the Bluffer 2008

Lovecraft super-charges various modern and post-modern mythemes such as the ancient astronauts (although Jason Colavito goes too far when he ascribes the whole complex to HPL), the Antarctic secret (from Hollow Earths to Nazi Refuges), scientific discoveries and secret histories that They are hushing up (although the atheist HPL didn't riff on Biblical themes as much as modern mythomania naturally does), cryptids, alien experimentation on humans, and so forth.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

The B.S. from Chavez can reach far, into mythomania....

03/19/2006 - 03/26/2006 2006

The B.S. from Chavez can reach far, into mythomania....

Falleth the Caracas viaduct: the end of an era? 2006

Has he become deranged through some form of mythomania?

05/21/2006 - 05/28/2006 2006