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Перевод: megalomania

[существительное]
мания величия; мегаломания

Тезаурус:

1. Despite their evident megalomania, no coherent vision informed them.
2. While the Beaux-Arts reflected both this new national conceit and the megalomania of American railroad companies, it also offered American architects a new means to self-assertion through the railway station.
3. Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own programme.
4. The 1890s saw the triumph of megalomania as size took over and passengers and tracks increased in number.
5. The "Fabian Quarterly", making the same point, added that it was "pleasantly free from that form of local megalomania which sometimes mars otherwise praiseworthy local efforts".
6. Carroll Meeks, the doyen of station architecture historians, discerns four distinct periods in the era of picturesque eclecticism - the emulation of one style (1830-;50), the synthesis of many (1850s), the take-off to creativity (1860-;90), and finally megalomania (1890-;1914).
7. A glance at bibliographies on the German question, German national identity and German history reveals this huge lack of certainty: "Our New German Megalomania", "The Delayed Nation: On the political temptations of the German mind", "What is the German's fatherland?",
8. The station represented as much as any other architectural form the megalomania of American capitalism in the first two decades of this century.
9. From the time of Stalin, at least, modesty and megalomania have gone hand in hand.
10. Marshall's flax business declined after his death and closed down altogether in 1886, but the building remains standing (and occupied) as a monument to the slight attack of megalomania that Yorkshire's textile industry went through in the nineteenth century.
11. Nonetheless, it was Major's readiness to use this language (which, interestingly, Mrs Thatcher, in her effluvial megalomania, regards as Marxist) that allowed people to vote Conservative, albeit not with a clear conscience.
12. And so the telegram was sent, a come-uppance which deserves quotation as an act that may have saved the world from early extinction by sheer megalomania: "I deeply regret that it becomes my duty as president and Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces to replace you as Supreme Commander, Allied Powers; Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command; Commander-in-Chief, Far East; and Commanding General, U. S. Army Far East.
13. FICTION has done its best to depict the megalomania of the media industry, throwing up characters like Lord Copper, Citizen Kane and Lord Gnome.