Sentences with phrase «by hubris»

Driven by the hubris of scientists like Michael Mann whose careers are totally invested in the «dire predictions» of rising CO2, the normal scientific process of challenging a hypothesis was framed as an «attack on science».

No wonder they keep being blindsided by hubris.

The construction of the exotic is based on a misconception; on a problem of perception caused by hubris.

He tempted fate by hubris.

«I think ultimately the speaker was brought down by hubris, by illegal action, by lapse of judgement, and whenever that happened, it at least happened.»

By militarizing the PDP, he drove away almost all the decent elements, leaving behind only the mere chaff and yes (wo) men, nevertheless crippled by hubris!

For all the cheers during and after David Cameron's bravura last PMQs the painful truth is that he was destroyed by hubris.

IBB, seized by the hubris of his military power and glory in 1989, decreed the old «new breed».

But Eastwood and those who applauded him were driven by hubris, not humility.

When a civilization is destroyed by hubris, those who are left behind are forced to rebuild society, this time learning from our past mistakes.

Wharton Business School professor Ethan Mollick co-authored a paper on female entrepreneurship claiming that women are defined by humility, and men by hubris.

Not exact matches

Branson, we are told, is driven by profit and hubris.

It was doomed by Holmes» hubris — the belief that she could do anything and would never need a backup plan.

And you can do that, not with hubris or brash posturing, she continues, but by logging the hours and doing the work.

In a press release, Tesla Motors said that its delivery count for the first quarter of the year was affected by severe shortages from suppliers for Model X parts, spurred by the company's own hubris.

The company frankly admitted that the shortages were caused by its own hubris, with Tesla putting too much new technology into the first version of the Model X.

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.

In a recent WSJ article, Jason Zweig brilliantly summarizes the unbearable hype and hubris exhibited by some self - titled «quants»:

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!

Another very human flaw revealed by Jesus was a character flaw, vindictive hubris.

Xianity is a syndrome caused by dualistic delusions and epistemological hubris.

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.

The awful moral choice forced on Senator Kerrey is a commonplace aspect of war, not understood at all by professors and editorial writers who imagine, with obscene hubris, that they could avoid the guilt feelings associated with combat.

In the second scene he had announced his refusal «to live under the eye of eternity» But by the film's end he has overcome the hubris of that technique for coping:

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.

Unlike Samuel Beckett or Jorge Luis Borges, who provide a modernist critique of dialectical hubris by parodying the infinite regress of its logic while never going beyond that logic themselves, Solzhenitsyn claims to have learned how to move beyond the absurdities born of an unbridled rationalism, since he, and the rest of his fellow zeks (prisoners), have suffered dialectic's most extreme miscalculation.

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

Hubris, mendacity and social hypocrisy in the service of irresponsible institutional power are the character of its contents by which this is accomplished.

I just haven't seen scientific proof either way, so I try to get rid of the hubris by saying that I simply don't know if there is a god (s) or not.

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.

The sixties generation's inordinate self - regard; their demand to be given, without striving for it, all the goodies their society had to offer, including, of course, easy sex; their recourse to the instant and unearned sense of power and comfort supplied by drugs; their refusal to serve their country; their general ingratitude, expressed most of all in their declared intention to lead lives in no respect like those of their forebears — all these were translations of the hubris that, partly unconsciously but entirely influentially, constituted the basic underpinning of their upbringing.

The hubris displayed by amateur atheists, those completely ignorant of Christian faith, is astonishing.

It is a process that has involved various levels of human invention, expressing itself mainly in the development of technology and various other fields of human knowledge and endeavor, and I should add emphatically the various stages of human hubris that has expressed itself in the oppression and conquest of peoples by other peoples.

But in very substantial degree, the dismantling of the social - welfare system undertaken by the Reagan administration with the blessing of fundamentalist preachers and their followers reflects the atrophy of the ethical conscience and the growth of self - centeredness, the hubris of the successful and their scorn for those less adept at «making it.»

It will lose not because of our hubris, not because we refuse to acknowledge limits or that mistakes may occur, but because by itself the argument is self - defeating.

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By advancing and acting upon his understanding of the power of courts, says Bork, «Barak surely establishes a worldrecord for judicial hubris.»

In my 50 years I have never witnessed such a significant decline of someone so closely, of someone so famous and competent: by their own hubris and the cowardice of the those around them (the board) in fulfilling their responsibilities.

And add to this that, when Cameron goes on the attack, it helps to reinforce the negative qualities that are now increasingly being associated with him by the media, and in the public consciousness - coldness, arrogance, tendency to hubris.

If they see customs delays on the horizon they'll be forced to move to mainland Europe by a combination of UK hubris and their own established manufacturing methods.

We need a leader with a vision, not someone whose sole aim is to manage things a bit better, or is driven by his own hubris, vanity and lust for power and status.

conclusion: Hubris was recognized by the ancient Greeks as an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power.

A highly visible proponent of innovative policing since his early 30s, the Boston native has been tripped up twice by his own hubris — but he rebounded the first time to oversee historic crime declines in 1990s New York, then followed up with similar success in Los Angeles.

-- CU backed Gustavo Rivera over Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., saying the Bronx lawmaker has «has become a symbol for hubris, corruption and wrongdoing in the state legislature due to ongoing investigations by the attorney general and federal authorities and his leadership in bringing Senate business to a month - long halt last summer.»

Hubris ruled, and the belief that heads of companies would always look after the long - term prospects of firms and not be blinded by the rhetoric of being untouchable was flawed.

It's a personal thing, done by immature hubris - soaked power people.In the NY CD 26th district, where a special election was held on May 24th, and won by a Dem.

In the end, nothing changed, as Spitzer was steamrolled by his own hubris, to the delight of Albany's entrenched powers - that - be — before vanishing into his personal septic tank of a sex scandal.

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.

By contrast, Scott was consumed with hubris, which is what killed him in the end.

I couldn't condense my reaction to one word, and I can't publish the two words I shouted upon hearing this, but I'm amazed by Apple's hubris.