Sentences with phrase «called hubris»

I know this day trader called Hubris.

The pressure is no surprise at all given that the company just announced that it wouldn't be releasing smartphones based on the new BlackBerry 10 operating system until late 2012, to say nothing of what might be called hubris when it comes to the overall management of the company (of which, the recent BBX trademark imbroglio and the pending BBM trademark lawsuit are just two recent examples).

The Greeks called that Hubris and warned that it was a precursor to disaster.

This is called hubris — and, in hindsight, naïvete.

I've already called a Hubris Alert on this one; I'm sorry, Mr. Chancellor, but when just 21 percent of your eighth - grade students are proficient in reading, I think a little more humility is needed.

All right all you God - mockers out there, I would like you to consider the following, even for a fraction of a second, which is probably your attention span: You are all suffering from what the ancient Greeks called HUBRIS.

Pride is the main subject of Greek tragedy, where it is called hubris.

Call it hubris, the belief that he could alter an actor's career arc the way he did for Richard Jenkins («The Visitor») or Peter Dinklage and Patricia Clarkson («The Station Agent») or Bobby Cannavalle («Win Win»).

Maybe Activision just had too much faith in their game, some would call it hubris.

Not exact matches

«The pernicious payoff of hubris,» Daniel Tisch calls it.

I'm just enraged that this so - called church (read: cult of hubris, like Romney) would do such an atrocious thing to Anne Frank - a courageous young woman who died because of her religion.

It is sad to see someone who has been an amazing servant to the team, not know when to call it quits and hurt his standing and legacy out of sheer, stubbornness and hubris.

In Alex Gibney's documentary, which debuted to a packed crowd last night, Spitzer calls himself «a person who lacked hubris.»

But even then, at the apex of his hubris, he suborned the cream of Business Nigeria, extorted «donations» as sitting president and Oil minister, and with the proceeds, built himself a self - indicting temple of corruption, in the so - called Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library!

Donald Trump Jr. used Hillary Clinton's birthday as an opportunity to take a dig at the former Democratic presidential nominee calling her out for her hubris in a tweet in 2016 announcing herself as the future president.

Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch called it «one of the most extreme examples of hubris and arrogance we have ever seen.»

First published anonymously in 1818, the book and subsequent films and plays have become what Jon Turney, author of the book Frankenstein's Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, calls «the governing myth of modern biology»: a cautionary tale of scientific hubris.

Nothing called down the wrath of Nemesis on the head of its possessor quicker and surer than hubris, the wilful ignorance of our ignorance, the ignorance of the ignoramus, rather than the ignorance of Socrates, which has its roots in wisdom or the knowledge of our second - ratedness.

Like most men who scale high mountains, he has had close calls with hubris.

«I call it innocence, naïveté, hubris — I don't know.»

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).

Bad call on his part, due to his hubris in that.

Called Reign of Grelock, you could originally find it on one of the terminals in the offices of Hubris Comics.

Last year, we called developer hubris and obstinance the biggest blunder of the year, as we criticized game development and business model decisions in WildStar, Destiny, The Elder Scrolls Online, and ArcheAge.

«Warmer periods are called optima because for human civilization, and much of nature, warm is better than cold,» writes Michael Hart in Hubris: The Troubling Science, Economics, and Politics of Climate Change (Kindle location 3197).

You could call it karma — the death of the polar bear icon after the shameful hubris of polar bear experts back in 2009.

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.

Call it some modern - day cross-mix of NCC, hubris, and pursuit of money and power that drives them to varying individual degrees.

Perhaps it's professional hubris — what others might call in - breeding.

No, not I. Rather, I recognize that there is no room for hubris in this incredible and yet delicate entity called marriage.