Sentences with phrase «against hubris»

Massively hyped, the film was an overblown mess and an embarrassing misfire for Schwarzenegger, and remains a cautionary tale against the hubris of success.

By avoiding the claim that RGTs «play God» by «usurping God's prerogatives,» Christian debaters can caution against the hubris unleashed by some RGTs as a way of «caring for the creation drawn from God.»

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What they do not realize is that by fighting against government power to check financial hubris, they are paving the road for centralized financial planning by Wall Street.

Croesus» hubris results in the loss of his kingdom, and his freedom, to Cyrus, who in turn repeats the pattern: After gaining great wealth, he decides - even though Croesus himself warns him against it - to invade a poor country, and he loses not only the war with the Massagetae but also his life.

For Reid and those of his persuasion, George Bush's suggestion that a precipitous American withdrawal from Iraq would lead to bloodbaths similar to those in postwar Vietnam and Cambodia is blasphemy by a political heretic and usurper against the canonical account of America's Vietnam and its revelation of the perils of American hubris.

Callahan has been a tireless crusader against the technological hubris and frequent fraud that drives more of medical research than we want to believe.

The hubris has gotten so out of hand, in fact, that one prominent «presumption against war» advocate recently proposed that the Catechism be amended, so that a consensus of bishops, the faithful, and theologians (the last presumably shaping the judgment of the first two) be required for judging a given military action morally legitimate.

Morrison feared that denominational hubris would work against the new council.

Its more distant ancestor is the Greek hubris — insolence against the gods.

The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking.

Washington insisted on single coverage against Stokes, and it paid for this hubris: Stokes scorched the Huskies for 10 receptions, of which four went for touchdowns.

Triple H was caught up in the gravitational pull of his own hubris, feeling he could take on Ronda Rousey in a match where men aren't supposed to be fighting against women — he nearly paid for it with a broken arm.

This slice of British football sports history won't have any cultural resonance for us Yanks, who still insist on calling the sport soccer, but the portrait of ambition and hubris run amuck resonates in any arena, even if the script boils down his motivation for jumping ship and taking over the league bruisers and longtime champions Leeds United (the «Damned» of the title) to a grudge against their longtime coach and the sport's most successful manager Don Revie (Colm Meaney).

But it does a fine job of conjuring up Zoe's paranoia and ultimately succeeds at being a cautionary tale against scientific hubris.

Doctor Stephen Strange overcame his hubris to become Earth's Sorcerer Supreme, wielding the green Time Stone against any magical dangers that would threaten the planet (Doctor Strange, 2016).

Accepting, Wallinger praised Haw's «tireless campaign against the folly and hubris of our government's foreign policy».

«Brian Haw is a remarkable man who has waged a tireless campaign against the folly and hubris of our government's foreign policy,» Wallinger said.»

So back to read what Joe actually said at 10:03: «So Gleick, in his hubris, attempted to prime the pump for a battle against Heartland that he intended to wage as a board member at NCSE by releasing a fake document that portrayed Heartland as an anti-science organization.

I'm almost tempted to declare the science settled and stalk out of the room in a the self - satisfied glow of hubris, but that would be against my religion.

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Richard Busch, the Gaye family lawyer, describes how the Thicke side's hubris and inconsistency contributed to the jury verdict going against them — but insists that the case was successful because of the characteristics of the music itself.

McMaster, often described as the army's own futurist, holds a complex view on technology, cautioning against technological hubris as a solution to modern warfare.