megalomaniacally

Megalomaniacally, Wagner hoped that if one superartist could reunite the arts, then perhaps that would become the basis for a reunification of society as well.

When actors are speaking, he leaps among his battery of exotic instruments, a megalomaniacally inflated one-man band, although for the chorus dances he falls back on recorded ensemble music.

As Norma Evenson has put it, "the proposed city appeared to some an audacious and compelling vision of a brave new world, and to others a frigid megalomaniacally scaled negation of the familiar urban ambient."

And a new work, "Blank Sheet of Metal," by a young composer, Allison Cameron, was so peculiar and megalomaniacally annoying, yet so obviously the product of an unusual talent, sensitive to sonority and time's organization, that I was curious to hear her other music.