We saw a temper that matched his enormous ego.

A hopeless negotiator with an enormous ego.

The basic problem was political philosophy coupled with enormous ego.

But they have enormous egos, huge pride.

The enormous egos in this industry.

A good actor sees in it something that can feed his ego.

You're heading into a period where others will be lining up to feed your ego and you'll love every minute of it.

How can he be comfortable with better dancers being eliminated, just to feed his ego?

Of course, this public outpouring had the added benefit of being able to feed their ego by showing everyone how caring they are.

I don't need to feed an ego.

And, like the giant ego of the rapper, it continues to expand.

When you add the alcohol to that giant ego, anything could happen.

This has proven to be one of the few things that can destroy his giant ego.

It has led to fortunes being squandered and giant egos brutally crushed.

On the long drives to scout for new players and attend matches, they talked for hours, forging a deep — and with two giant egos crammed into one car, combustible — friendship.

A healthy ego allows you to perceive people as being a rich combination of many values, attributes, strengths and challenges.

While his behaviour prompted raised eyebrows, most of us were happy with the trade-off: match-winning innings in exchange for a healthy ego.

And, like most actors, she has a healthy ego.

But success only fed his already healthy ego.

Insiders made clear the firm could no longer sustain such a huge ego.

I don't doubt his honesty; he doesn't seem to be secretly harbouring a huge ego or hiding a luxury yacht.

It was a huge ego boost and opened my eyes to the fact that they really did want to meet me.

He was also a showman with a huge ego who revelled in the attention.

It will only boost that huge ego of his.

I don't know how to talk to him about it and don't want to hurt his ego.

Yet they are only human and rejection can hurt the ego.

He has got the perfect manager to do so and being taken off with half an hour to go in a big game will have hurt his ego.

Being inundated with e-mails from around the world and courted by the media seemed to inflate his ego and confusion in equal measure.

After landing the role, she allows her growing accomplishments to inflate her ego, and she begins acting rudely and bossing around her sisters.

And they're clever enough not to inflate their egos like certain of their male contemporaries.

This doesn't seem to have inflated his ego, which no doubt has kept his decision-making balanced.

You pay these mercenaries wages that are at least twice what they are worth, you inflate their egos, and then leave half of them on the bench.

The nation's largest piece of public art, right, feels more like a monument to a massive ego than a cultural icon.

That won't do much for his massive ego.

There's massive ego involved in that.

We all know he has a massive ego.

I know his charm and confidence make it appear otherwise, but narcissists construct a massive ego to defend a shatteringly fragile self-esteem.

They are built to satisfy the ego.

Enough people seem to know me and stop me and congratulate me in the street, and that satisfies my ego.

Is it all just about satisfying the ego?

While he received large amounts of money, he apparently felt unappreciated in his own service and spying on it satisfied his ego.

It satisfies their ego and gives them a sense of pride.

I'm not there to stroke his ego.

His translator says random phrases designed to stroke his ego.

He waxes eloquent in front of the group, uses all his special terminology, and gets the accompanying ego strokes.

His two books produced speaking engagements and ego strokes.

The need to be needed runs strong in most people, and counseling can offer wonderful ego strokes.

There was, he added, 'more at stake than the wounded ego of an individual judge'.

My experience tells me you'd be part of a revenge fling or, at the very least, a boost for this guy's wounded ego.

Like other ego state therapies, it aims to help individual wounded ego states heal, and encourage cooperation and integration between ego states.

You've a talent for soothing wounded egos and making others think they've won the battle when, in reality, nothing's changed.