Grandiosity

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), NPD is a mental illness and is associated with a 'need for admiration, lack of empathy and pervasive pattern of grandiosity'.

The theme for 2023 seemed to be diluted by the grandiosity of the Mullins Center venue and corporate involvement, in addition to being absent from the emcee script.

While Taika Waititi would later lean into the colorful weirdness of the comics, Kenneth Branagh focused on their Shakespearean grandiosity in his initial solo movie for the God of Thunder.

It’s hard to generate this sense of grandiosity and urgency with a lean 90 minute runtime, so the scope is expanded.

While his melodies are understated and gently paced, one can hear the grandiosity in them.

While musically epic, however, the plot of “Hell’s Kitchen” doesn’t match the score’s grandiosity.

Boswell’s grandiosity and impetuousness mixed with dark periods of guilt into behavior that would surely be called manic depression if he lived 100 years later.

But this is taking the grandiosity of the protesters at their own word.

It’s always watchable when Pfeiffer is around to delight in overplaying Frances’ imperious theatrical grandiosity, and Hedges has long been good at playing characters who have a kind of interesting passivity.

For me, these wines were both modest and wonderful, conveying important elements of Burgundy’s appeal without grandiosity.

In that radio interview, Anderson's innate modesty comes through: She often refers to herself as "we" or "one" — not out of grandiosity, but because she was keenly aware that she, too, stood on the shoulders of others.

Sir, your vocabulary is as delicious as an assorted ice cream with all the necessary balance of eloquence, magniloquence & grandiosity.

There’s a little hucksterism, a little grandiosity, a little sentimentality and a whole lot of hero worship.

At the time, it struck me simply as a delusional expression of his grandiosity.

It's sad to think that the grandiosity of that age will never be seen again.

With bloated administrative salaries and suffocating grandiosity, Cal’s administration fits every negative characterization which Foster Wallace assigns to the Maine Lobster Festival.

As a consequence, his work often receives mixed reviews from critics, some of whom have noted a tendency toward grandiosity and obviousness in some of his work.

Though sometimes inclined to indulge in grandiosity when writing for a full symphony orchestra, he was adept in using smaller forces to the maximum effect.