Picard, his quixotic impulses in full bloom, every so often indulged them along with his budding messianic complex.

"De Gaulle may be an honest man, but he has the messianic complex," he wrote.

"Qaddafi has always had a messianic complex," one Western expert said of the unpredictable army officer, who seized power in 1969.

Iraqis have long said that Mr. Hussein's messianic complex about his role in history would not allow him to accept the humiliation of fleeing abroad.

She has a messianic complex, and seeks to save the world from whatever may threaten it.

Brown depicts him as having a messianic complex and possibly having schizophrenia.

She admitted a messianic complex.

Is he crazy, stubborn, possessed by a messianic complex?

A messianic complex?

"There are doctors who think I have a messianic complex," he remarked.