Napoléon complex

English Noun ! en Napoleon complex. en Harriet Welty Rochefort French Toast: An American in Paris Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French New York, N.Y. w:Thomas Dunne Books 1999 63 https://archive.org/details/frenchtoastameri0000roch/page/63/mode/1up 0-312-19978-3 The quality of the driving seems to be inversely proportional to the size of the car, the worst drivers being in the smallest cars, the Renault 5s and the Peugeot 205s. Do French cars also have a Napoléon complex? The 1st edition (1997) has “Napoleon complex”. en w:Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx Scribner 2003 83 https://archive.org/details/randomfamilylov00lebl/page/83/mode/1up 0-684-86387-1 Said Rocco, “He had that Napoléon complex, because he was short.” en Shane L. Windmeyer Brotherhood: Gay Life in College Fraternities w:Alyson Books 2005 12 1-55583-856-1 He was a good-looking guy who suffered a bit of a Napoléon complex—he was short in stature but loud. en Harry Hunsicker Still River: A Lee Henry Oswald Mystery St. Martin’s Paperbacks 2005 2006 0-312-94090-4 I left her there, crying softly in the doorway of a home filled with bitter old women, an egotistical, abusive husband, and one musclehead with a Napoléon complex, currently cleaning tomato aspic out of his ears. en Douglas H. Ruben Behavioral Guide to Personality Disorders (DSM-5) Charles C Thomas 2015 188 978-0-398-09087-6 He also teased the shorter men of having a Napoléon complex and teased the women for never wearing make-up. en w:Brian Freemantle The Cloud Collector: A Thriller w:Thomas Dunne Books 2015 5 978-1-250-06623-7 Dodson, who’d actually consulted reference books for the diagnosis, decided Monkton’s behavior was a classic example of a Napoléon complex, the insignificantly small man’s constant need to bully. en Michael Gross Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers Atria Paperback 2016 2017 188 and 364 978-1-4767-6346-0 Then they had sex, and “I realized he wasn’t kidding,” she says, “and therein lies his Napoléon complex. It was so small that to this day, I’ve never again encountered anything like it.” In another interview, Terry [Richardson] admitted, “I inherited all the schizophrenia, depression, anxieties, and a Napoléon complex, even though we’re both six feet tall.” en Murray S. Y. Bessette The Philosophic Background of Alexandre Kojève’s “Tyranny and Wisdom” Timothy W. Burns; Bryan-Paul Frost Philosophy, History, and Tyranny: Reexamining the Debate between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojève w:SUNY Press 2016 65 9781438462097 Slaves are ‘reasonable’ in their assessments of relative capacities and would diagnose such a masterly type as suffering from a Napoléon complex. However, it is also possible that, like the individual who from the slavish perspective ‘suffers’ from a Napoléon complex, the Master fails to recognize the ‘reasonable’ limits of the particular circumstances. en Celia Bonaduce Slim Pickins’ in Fat Chance, Texas Lyrical Press 2016 157 978-1-60183-432-4 “I think Elvis has a Napoléon complex.” “No, he doesn’t,” Pappy said. “He does. He won’t behave. He does whatever gets into his head. He comes in when he wants, he goes out when he wants, eats when he wants.” en w:Glen Weldon The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2016 2017 25 In November 1939’s Detective Comics #33, Batman tackles the Dirigible of Doom—an airship armed with a death ray and piloted by a madman with a Napoléon complex. en Kristin von Kreisler A Healing Justice Kensington Books 2018 978-1-4967-0045-2 “So what’s Franz like?” Tom asked. “A shrimp. Napoléon complex. Reactive.” en w:Robert Hilburn Paul Simon: The Life Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2018 2019 371 978-1-5011-1212-6 [Art] Garfunkel returned a year later in an interview with Nigel Farndale of the Sunday Telegraph in England in which he was asked whether Paul [Simon] might have a Napoléon complex; was there a height thing between them? en Delilah Devli Pirates: A Boys Behaving Badly Anthology #3 Twisted Page Inc 2018 9781626951419 “I thought you’d be shorter. Pirates usually have a Napoléon complex.” en Varnadore Vaughn Bleudark 2022 48 979-8201299163 The Dwarf especially enjoyed getting in close and eviscerating his victims, and he always went over the top. His face showed a millennium of scars endured from getting into the muck with his enemies. It was clinical Napoléon complex behavior.