mythomaniac

Belbo said the man had seemed a mythomaniac to him.

Here's a mythomaniac who is also a prodigiously gifted storyteller.

"He's a mythomaniac, in that he's constructed his own world."

The charge was filed soon by the magistrate and the woman was interned in a mental hospital as a mythomaniac.

He was not insane or stupid; rather he was intelligent, but he was most likely a mythomaniac.

Malraux wrote, in "La Voie Royale," that "every adventurer is born a mythomaniac."

In this context a detective plot with political connotations is developed, narrated from the point of view of a mythomaniac teenager daughter of Spaniards.

They described the gunman as an "extreme rightist mythomaniac" and said he had been transferred to the police psychiatric detention unit pending a court hearing on Monday.

Lerman was a gregarious (over-gregarious, he fretted), self-educated man of culture, born in a Harlem brownstone to a mythomaniac Jewish immigrant family.

Some of his contemporaries said he was frivolous, mercurial, mundane, uneducated, vindictive, a mythomaniac and, above all, terribly vain and narcissistic to the point of megalomania.

Under the headline "The Mistake and the Challenge," an editorial in Le Monde said, "The highest levels of the state gave credibility to the lies of a mythomaniac."

Diana was clearly a mythomaniac, a fantasist, a fibber, a manipulator, and a world-class actress, with a particular talent for delivering well-rehearsed, weapons-grade zingers with an air of absolute innocence.

The uncanny dynamic driving the book gradually shifts from portraying Gilmore as a violent mythomaniac at war with society, to depicting a ruthlessly mythologizing media at war with Gilmore's ragged soul, as Gilmore himself works the levers of mass spectacle.

Antony Beevor also claims that "Malraux stands out, not just because he was a mythomaniac in his claims of martial heroism - in Spain and later in the French Resistance - but because he cynically exploited the opportunity for intellectual heroism in the legend of the Spanish Republic."