Sentences with phrase «extreme hubris»

It seems to me an act of extreme hubris to dismiss any species as «unneeded.»

Turning the disc over fires up that ridiculous anti-piracy PSA (always ineffectual, it feels like extreme hubris on a movie like The Ringer), and the film is burned herein in all its pan-and-scan glory — an option strictly for the would - be Jeffys out there.

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The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

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.

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.

Presently, hubris in the extreme marks the point of view of the world's leading nation - state in this area too.

«The fact that he was trying to become the top state prosecutor in this borough I think shows the extreme arrogance and hubris that is involved in this case,» Lynch said.

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

«Today we have unsealed a nine - count indictment that outlines a pattern of self - dealing and corruption that spans decades and covers several events, including the defendant's failed bid to become the Brooklyn District Attorney,» U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch said during a press conference announcing the charges, where she described Mr. Sampson's alleged conduct as «one of the most extreme examples of political hubris that we have yet seen.»

---- Hubris (/ ˈhjuːbrɪs /, also hybris, from ancient Greek ὕβρις) describes a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence.

Nintendo's hubris among its competitors and peers is extreme.