Mr. Gervais portrays one of the losers, a preening misanthrope with a colossal ego who believes that the world is full of idiots who inexplicably cannot appreciate his genius.

If there was trouble among the colossal egos of local business leaders, Ken Lay brought them to the table and forced a compromise.

Mr. Mobutu has been called one of the world's wealthiest heads of state, a brutal dictator, an inveterate meddler in the affairs of neighbors and a colossal ego.

As hardly needs saying, he had a colossal ego.

The colossal ego was submerged, and what people observed moving frantically above the surface was the periscope of the soul searching for its target.

Joan Didion described it as "an enlarged version of a very common kind of California tract house, a monument not to colossal ego but a weird absence of ego."

The author seems to know everything about the music business, and he can be amusing about the colossal egos of superstars and other caterpillars of the Commonwealth.

It was too arrogant, too condescending, and betrayed a colossal ego.

Presidents are often surrounded by advisers with colossal egos (not that these are lacking in this administration) whose major objective is to build their own empires - and reputations.