Sentences with phrase «about hubris»

I worry about the hubris of climate modelers, telling me that I am wrong and impossible to try to tease out one value for net feedback for the entire climate, and instead I should be thinking in terms of teasing out hundreds or thousands of parameters related to feedback.

Until you've determined that, comments about hubris are premature at best.

Camus insists that men must take seriously the old Greek insights about hubris and nemesis.

For all his warnings about the hubris of theological systems, his dogmatic theology looked like a massive new scholasticism.

and by the way, Obama has pontificated more than any other President in my lifetime so if you are going to preach about hubris in policiticians take a look at your current President!

Not exact matches

Success also bred hubris about RIM's position in the market.

Seems everyone has an opinion about what it is that makes Silicon Valley generate so much value and so many crazy start - ups, but I think a lot of those easy explanations are full of hubris and miss the real magic of what is happening here.

The only way you'll succeed in one of these intense environments is if you feel welcome into the space, and it supports an open culture where students encountering setbacks can tackle them without being worried about others having a level of ego or hubris.

His hubris, on full display as he preens and gossips and makes catty remarks about Trump's spray tan and hand size, quite possibly put this man he considers a dangerous buffoon in office.

In this Inc. interview he says «Your reputation is all you've got in life» and talks about integrity, positioning, stunts, hubris, and more.

Isikoff has written two best - sellers, «Uncovering Clinton» and (with David Corn) «Hubris,» about the selling of the Iraq War.

What I find incredible about Thorp's example is not only that maximized his understanding and beat the market, but that he avoided the quackery and hubris that can so often bedevil people who have ventured so far from the average.

One could argue that a sense of hubris would overtake a management team who is more concerned about the family legacy than the shareholders.

I also posted what I considered almost a throw away post about bias I perceive in the Kansas City Star and the hubris (again, as I see it) of the Stowers Institute with regard to SCNT research.

oh, so like pretty much all religious people you have the audacity and hubris to speak disparagingly about what other people * think * their religion is supposed to be about, implying that, apparently, you and only you have all the real answers.

In Kagan's account, Niebuhr's distinctive warnings about the temptations of human power are absent» as are his concerns about the perils of hubris and overreaching by those who are overly confident of the efficacy of power and justice in the world.

But it's never better than when it's questioning its hero's hubris, and works in a theme about the power of humility that would make Brene Brown stand up and cheer.

... But what about our own hubris?

Talk about the very definition of hubris!

Indeed, I see a lot of the contempt for animals I see in this world stemming from the human hubris of assuming that we are fundamentally separate from the animal world, which we clearly aren't and evolutionary theory explains a lot about how deeply rooted in the rest of the animate world we are.

«What I did was not only wrong, but was a consequence of hubris and a failure of judgment and self - indulgence, which is absolutely inexplicable and unjustifiable, improper, and I would agree probably with most of Mika's characterizations about me,» Spitzer said, asked what flaws led him to break the law.

«They had an enormous amount of hubris» about the economy under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

«The Disaster Artist» is about the nerve of creators who dare to put pieces of themselves up on the screen and how it takes some lack of self - awareness in order to tempt that hubris to do something so grandiose.

Hollywood should realize that these big tiff things aren't nearly as impressive as they once were, particularly in the aftermath of three years of Iron Age combat apotheosized in the great «Lord of the Rings» pictures; when you've seen Orcs and hobbits fighting for the future of the world, it's a little hard to get excited about Persians and Greeks fighting over someone's imperial hubris 2,300 years ago.

He talks about how his reasons for joining Starfleet were much less heroic and proud as his late father, wracked it seems with more self - doubt than we've seen before; perhaps facing down Khan and almost dying quelled some of the hubris that led to his recklessness in both previous movies.

Okay, how about imperial hubris?

Stephen Frears, director of The Hit, My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liasons, The Grifters, High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen and so many more quietly great films, seems to get a pretty significant performance out of Ben Foster in his biopic about the myth, hubris and ultimate downfall of American cyclist Lance Armstrong.

Even if the big - screen revival of the HBO series about a movie star (Adrian Grenier) and his posse does technically qualify as a film, it's still questionable whether writer - director Doug Ellin has ever seen any other movies, given the Mortal Instruments - level movie - within - the - sorta - movie that he presents not as a goof on Hollywood hubris but as an uncompromising masterpiece that eventually makes half a billion dollars at the box office.

If not, Stephen Gaghan's Gold is a fanciful, fictional retelling of a story about Wall Street greed and hubris that is happy to take the cautionary tale and gild it with Hollywood glitz.

This is a Greek tragedy of the highest order, all about how one man's even slight hubris and mistake has consequences no matter how slight his transgression is or how much he does to try to get out of it.

The beauty of Leo's approach is his understanding that for all the popularity of the band, their story is essentially about the tragic fall of a genius («They say I got brains, but they ain't doing me no good»), who self - immolated above the torch of hubris and ambition at the height of his creative power.

Sometimes, the best documentaries are about losers, accidental stardom, hubris, and horrible people.

But more than just a riotously funny story about cinematic hubris, The Disaster Artist is an honest and warm testament to friendship.

It is naïve to believe that any one entity or idea alone can bring about changes at the scope and scale needed, yet the ongoing emphasis of educational discourse shows that ideological hubris is found in every corner.

The claim that you know more about Jewish faith when you have not grown up in it is the height of condescending hubris.

My «vitriol» toward Jobs (an easy out for you) is in direct proportion to what he is obviously trying (successfully) to do but should not have said openly in a world that cares about the appearance of price - fixing — but a certain kind of hubris caused him to blurt out his foreknowledge of what the group of publishers would be doing — after he suggested they should.

My hubris in trying to write a novel set in 1845 New York was about the fact that I specifically wanted to do day one, cop one of the NYPD.

EMMA, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance.

10) markets expect Greenspan put, forget about risk (thanks again Greenspan) 11) hubris filled CEOs and traders don't understand (or don't care about?)

Horizon Zero Dawn succeeds largely because it uses the fine - tuned yet formulaic trappings of the Ubisoft open world model to tell a story about how our hubris and stubborn, oppositional relationship with nature will be our downfall and how our empathy and refusal to accept life as it is will be our redemption.

Throughout, he mixes his beliefs about the foolish hubris of those in authority with practical experience like this.

Wayne Thiebaud gets you to think about the folly and hubris of shaping the landscape to suit our needs.

At the heart of the Bay Area Figurative movement — which detained Diebenkorn for about ten years — there was probably a growing reservation about «American - type» painting and its New World hubris.

Powerful roots, nourished by plentiful sun and rain dwarf and strangle the ancient temples of Angkor evoking questions about our 21st Century hubris in the face of global warming.

This article illustrates the sort of hubris I'm talking about, this article drips of it.

Anxious about Western geopolitical hubris, developing nations have begun to argue for a moratorium on experiments until there is agreement on some kind of global governance system.

Bearing in mind their previous hubris about short - term cycles being manmade, their gross, unproven assumption about CO2 as a climate driver and the fact that the signal is far less than the error bars in the noise then why would anyone think that the long - term trend is anything other than just a separate upswinging natural cycle?

In other words, we must approach the topic with humility, rather than with hubris and arrogance about human control over nature or over technology.

Many environmentalists call geoengineering a false solution, ethicists often worry that it indicates a worrying hubris about human domination over nature, and some economists suggest that it would encourage decision makers to take on more climate risk.