Sentences with phrase «as hubris»

Perhaps this strikes you as hubris, but according to Globaïa, perhaps it reflects a a bigger picture of what we face as a species and as citizens of the world:

So, is an adolescent humanity to assess our concern with AGW as hubris, or as a realistic attempt to assess the gravity of our ongoing actions?

This would also lead to Sony's downfall as the hubris of the PlayStation 2's 155 million sales led to the pricy reveal of the PlayStation 3 which offered backward compatibility with all previous PlayStation consoles and could play Blu - ray but cost $ 499.99 for the 20 GB model and $ 599.99 for the 60 GB model.

Just as hubris drove Icarus to fly too close to the sun, overconfidence can make even a sophisticated investor think he knows better than the market.

Those tasked with tackling the event are portrayed as hubris, more arch villains than happened upon workers.

To dismiss the jubilance on display at the party's recent conference as hubris is to misunderstand what's going on.

It is this dialectic of the love which can not accept communion with another, but tries to become absolute which lies in the depths of sin as hubris.

Paul Tillich's description of the forms of sin varies somewhat from Niebuhr's.19 Tillich reviews the three major descriptions of sin in the theological tradition: Sin as unbelief, as hubris, and as concupiscence.

In one of its aspects, this quality is the root of what the theological tradition has pointed to as hubris.

Not exact matches

That, combined with a streak of hubris, brought a decade - long antitrust battle between the company and the U.S. Justice Department, as well as 20 state attorneys general.

In fact, it's resonated for me for at least 28 years, going back to a bit of hubris I demonstrated as a medical student watching a distinguished Harvard surgeon perform surgery to remove a patient's gall bladder (back before laparoscopic surgery and keyhole incisions became the norm).

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.

Others, such as Michael Carr, the global co-head of mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs, have said that only thing that could stop the record breaking pace of activity is hubris.

Shedding the «we're the best and we know it» hubris, he said, ranked as perhaps his greatest accomplishment.

No raucous after - parties were advertised, the Prentice team avoided the typical hubris of this type of victory; as if everyone knew, «tonight proves nothing».

But like all Ponzi schemes throughout history, the U.S. Ponzi scheme will implode under a massive weight of hubris, extreme greed and widespread ignorance disguised as complacency.

This brand of hubris is on a par with the conditions which led to the 1929 crash and Great Depression as revealed in the U.S. Senate hearings of the early 1930s.

Since then his independent reports, which have challenged industry and government hubris on a number of energy matters, are often quoted in publications as varied as Nature, The Economist, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, USA Today and The Tyee.

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.

Tyerman is not unaware of this, although he is quick to disclaim any such comparison: «It would be folly and hubris to pretend to compete, to match, as it were, my clunking computer keyboard with his [Runciman's] pen, at once a rapier and a paintbrush; to pit one volume, however substantial, with the breadth, scope and elegance of his three.»

It is sad that some people have so much hubris as to believe they know the truth when others who believe equally in another truth are wrong.

This might seem to have been a symptom of great hubris, but Einstein is after all to be forgiven for it because it wasn't questions of theology that occupied him so much as questions of design.

As to the «obscene hubris» of professors who imagine that they can avoid feelings of guilt, I am not sure who Dr. Breen is referring to.

The hubris in the thought is this, «critical thinking» excludes itself as an object of question.

Just sayin» I have a difficult time seeing claims of divine intervention in individual's lives as nothing more than hubris masquerading as humility.

@Ann Cardon, «The hubris in the thought is this, «critical thinking» excludes itself as an object of question.

Each sees the existence of the human race as just one particular episode in a vast non-human immensity and is hostile to the hubris which would tailor the universe to the human scale.

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.

He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.

Hubris, as in the Yiddish chutzpah.

Conservative Protestant theology — especially those elements influenced by fundamentalism — is seen as suffering a kind of hubris with regard to truth - claims.

In Obergefell v. Hodges, Justice Kennedy has penned a decision of historic hubris and stupidity — as both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Scalia argue in their dissents.

But the third has always struck me as pure fantasy, the point where idle speculation gives way to heavily funded hubris.

A brief list includes his calculated stealing of his college roommate's girlfriend (his eventual wife, Macel); an investigation into his enterprises by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the 1970s; the founding (and eventual disbanding) of the Moral Majority and the hubris such a title implied; his suing of pornographer Larry Flynt; his somewhat hostile takeover of Jim and Tammy Bakker's PTL enterprises at the height of the televangelism scandals; his visible support for «The Clinton Chronicles,» an irresponsible, rumor - mongering pseudo-documentary; and his attack on Tinky - Winky the Teletubby as a closet homosexual.

Would we not be wiser to act out of an acknowledgment of our ignorance, as Berry has suggested, rather than out of hubris, as we too long have done?

Every single one of them thinks they've found a profound lifestyle, system, or behavior that can change others lives for the better, and all of them are guilty of hubris, as they actually have no secret information at all.

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.»

As Martin P. Nilsson has suggested, hubris is not the sin of overweening pride but of taking upon oneself more in the order of being than one has a right to.

During this time, I have not noticed that my doctors are afflicted with the hubris that regards death as an accident that can be prevented.

It takes a bit of hubris to describe a recipe as «perfect», especially for something like cheesecake, for which so many have their own personal favorite.

Whenever a puck carrier has his head down, whenever a forward with more hubris than quickness tries to hurtle down the boards, somebody will nail him with a shot that makes the hitter tingle and the victim feel as though his right shoulder blade is on the left side of his body.

Instead, he went off to investigate hubris and nemesis at a national level, forcing the team to search for their sixth manager in as many years.

Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group, although the group the offender belongs to may suffer consequences from the wrongful act.

In hindsight, The Decision was not so much a moment of hubris as a declaration of intent.

I'm reminded of some dude named Icarus... and of the term «hubris» and the phrase «pride before the fall»... McGregor was a supernova flash in the pan, and as I've said before, he's probably going to go out just as quickly.

Yes it would be hubris not to admit that there are plenty of things that are out of our control such as referee decision, hitting woodwork etc etc, but it would also be hubris not to acknowledge that the opposition also have as much quality, effort, and determination.

Even with Wenger's hubris he might be lost for words as to why he should continue into his last year.

These stories have served as a cautionary tale for me, and I am sick of the hype surrounding how we feed our babies and the outright hubris of some people who have not had these experiences.

I thought he was ready, mostly based on his age, what other people's kids were doing at the time, and a vague bit of hubris that he seemed advanced in a few other areas (verbal, mostly) so clearrrrrrrrly he was going to train as soon as realistically possible.

His own hubris and mistakes as chancellor had made Britain's underlying fiscal position worse.