Sentences with phrase «from hubris»

An apology from this hubris filled person is very unlikely.

I fear until global warming filters down to hit us personally or «inconveniently» on an experiential level, meaning something devastating and unimaginable like our children or family members die or are unrecognizably impaired, (of course I'm referring to the wealthier countries whose children aren't dying or suffering from our hubris immediately anyway), only then will we see an environmental revolution that produces less discussion and more visceral healing «action».

And from this hubris comes a fatal decision not to self - publish.

From Hubris to Humility: Welcoming New Standards for School Libraries in Canada School Libraries in Canada, Volume 32, Issue 2 (2014) http://www.clatoolbox.ca/casl/slicv32n2/322brookskirkland.html

Brooks Kirkland: From Hubris to Humility: Welcoming New Standards for School Libraries in Canada

Crawford keeps getting the better of Beachum and Beachum's fatal flaw, stemming from that hubris thing, can't walk away from that.

There is no test: quite apart from the hubris, it is impossible.

Earthquakes and hurricanes will always wreak havoc, but risk management expert Robert Bea says the greatest tragedies result from hubris and greed.

The Cuomo crowd also suffers from hubris.

The greatest threat is not from climate change but from the hubris to build so much in regions where we know hurricanes will continue to land.

Not exact matches

Trying to compete at the same cost from such a weak position hints at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few years.

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.

It wasn't NASA's «hubris» that caused those deaths, but more mundane, and rather slight, technological flaws, from which engineers learned much.

Or look at this one another way and you'll see that it's hubris to assume we're safe from repeating some of history's stupider moments.

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

But he's also partly responsible for the hubris that damaged Yahoo with so many partners and advertisers — the very past from which Semel will want a clean break.

Hubris from Stage 1 («We're so great, we can do anything!»)

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.

But loopy ideas, on everything from juice - making to how to treat co-workers, suggest a little hubris is creeping in.

What I find incredible about Thorp's example is not only that maximized his understanding and beat the market, but that he avoided the quackery and hubris that can so often bedevil people who have ventured so far from the average.

True humility is more powerful than any hubris, and it comes only from the heart, where love resides.

Or, does your clear hubris prevent you from entertaining that possibility?

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.

Republicans should be relieved, for example, that the Twenty - Second Amendment prevents Bill Clinton from running for president again, and it is always possible that Republicans currently in power will fall victim to hubris, incompetence, or simple bad luck.

These voices, acting from a putative concern for the nation and even for the Republican Party, urge Republicans to avoid the mistake of Obama and the Democrats after 2008 of displaying hubris and overinterpreting their mandate.

Indeed, I see a lot of the contempt for animals I see in this world stemming from the human hubris of assuming that we are fundamentally separate from the animal world, which we clearly aren't and evolutionary theory explains a lot about how deeply rooted in the rest of the animate world we are.

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.

Such excessive concentration of power, Boff believes, leads to domination, centralization, marginalization of the faithful, triumphalism and institutional hubris — an extensive laundry list of aberrations from which not even the Sacred Congregation itself is exempted.

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.»

I know you don't like to accept the fact that what you think is truth may not actually be truth, but that is the hubris and pride that keeps you from being able to open your eyes and admit you might be wrong.

Mussolini's infamous quote captures the remarkable hubris of fascism, its frightening impulse to rule over every dimension of life (the word is from the Latin fasces, the bundle of rods sporting an axe «head that symbolized the unchallenged state authority of Rome).

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.

It finally took years of deceit from the team's owner, relocation, and that special brand of 7 - 9 bullshit (and the hubris that went with it) before I finally decided that enough was enough.

So, when a man's opinion differs from your own, it's hubris, but when a man's opinion supports your own, it's a logical opinion?

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.

Earned, hilarious hubris of the most magnificent order from one of baseball's greatest hitters.

Who is going to cover the D??? Bould???? What the F*ck is wrong with you???? How can you be so F*cking stupid, WHy so much hubris, so much unnecessary pride, Why do nt you f*cking ever learn from your own f*cking past mistakes?????

do u always throw sh@te from ur mouth?!!! what kind of an Arsenal fan are u?!! all of ur comments are full of hubris, sarcasm and bad smell..!

I'm all for respecting everyone but believing an incredibly intelligent guy like Redick who graduated from Duke (a university with a large Asian population) would say something like that on a recorded video for the NBA is a witch hunt, moral hubris, or just plain ole stupidity.

It's sad that some American obstetricians disdain homebirth, an attitude that comes partially from ignorance and inexperience, partially from professional hubris, and partially from being in the unfortunate position of only seeing homebirth moms when something goes wrong.

Hubris sure would explain Spitzer's decision to release only portions from two years of tax returns.

When Cahill made his willingness to move sales - tax legislation through the state legislature, a transfer of almost $ 5 million a year, conditional on county safety - net takeover and elections expenses from the towns, his critics accused him of hubris, just short of abuse of office.

This is not something many of our leaders — even, it seems, such a young prime minister as David Cameron — can stomach: they suffer from post-imperial hubris.

When Cahill made his willingness to move sales tax legislation through the state legislature, a transfer of almost $ 5 million a year, conditional on county Safety Net takeover and elections expenses from the towns, his critics accused him of hubris, just short of abuse of office.

Entering November, an unmistakable air of hubris emanated from the campaign's various orifices.

It was this new perspective more than anything else that turned gene therapy from a simple but failed and frustrated hope into, once again, medicine's next big thing — a stunning spectacle of hubris, ignominy, and redemption on the scientific stage.

McDowell said the order suffered from «regulatory hubris» and added, «Fortunately, the cures for this malady are obtainable in court.»

For now, however, the sole vote I could cast in confidence from the IAU's selection would go to a proposed name for the planet - hosting pulsar PSR 1257 +12: «Hubris.»

However, not only is Stark suffering from a severe case of hubris and a growing blood toxicity problem, but Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke), the Russian son of his father's ex-business partner, is out for vengeance.

Hirsch's McCandless never casts judgment on those who lead lives he finds empty, a remarkable job of acting for a young relatively - unknown talent and an interesting choice, as the headstrong lad was likely riding on a bit of hubris and contempt for the sham from which he was escaping.