Sentences with word «hubris»

But it does smack a bit of hubris in that we only know some of it to be myth, and we can't say anything on the supernatural elements any more than we can say about the reality of Santa Clause or a Hades rules by Pluto.

It was a small but revealing insight into BVB's tactics and their own hubris in gambling on two players with a limited press resistance in Schmelzer and Lukasz Piszczek to play around one of Schalke's most effective weapons this season.

The new Prey began life under a cloud - to be specific, the cloud kicked up by the demise of its Human Head predecessor - but in Talos 1, Arkane has fashioned one of the greatest virtual environments, as ornate and soggy with hubris as BioShock's Rapture, yet far more open - ended.

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.

As he readily admits, he has been burned by hubris in the past.

In Greek Mythology those who suffer from hubris suffer a bad demise.

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!

I'm in the group that says the alarmist scientists are guilty of hubris on an unprecedented scale.

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.

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).

If this is not hubris enough, the USAToday published a graphic, based on Mann's analysis and which is still online as of this writing, which purports to show the world's temperature within.0001 degree for every year going back two thousand years!

The movie instead explores humans: the Frankenstein - like hubris involved in creating artificial beings; the power relationships between employee and boss, parent and child, tester and testee; the moral responsibility of creation.

Thanks to the new tax bill, I already estimated my taxes and discovered that 2017 was a surprisingly good year for Sheer Hubris Press, which complicates all this decision making.

«There's a certain type of hubris involved here,» Wiley notes.

There was however a moment of hubris which Nick may well come to regret.

Peter Elkind says Spitzer is guilty of the same hubris for which he once assailed his Wall Street targets.

Like Tony Stark, Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a bit of an egomaniac — a brilliant neurosurgeon whose own hubris leads to his downfall.

So it was pure hubris when Tony Dungy decided to kick to him on the opening play of Super Bowl XLI.

I refuse to fall into the same scientific hubris as AGW supporters.

The Terror comes from a long tradition of gothic horror stories of foolhardy men who dare to tamper with the natural order; whose hubris gets the better of them, and sends them on the path to destruction.

Sure, German startup Bragi showed a bit of hubris when it named its second - generation fully wireless earbuds «The Headphone,» but as far as we're concerned, that's one of the few points that detracts from these excellent buds.

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.

The three party leaders are all presented in their best possible light, at times humourous and humble, exhibiting little hubris.

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.

I think hubris is the word you were looking for.

It displays incredible hubris for members to send out error - filled emails or make inaccurate statements to the press without first checking with staff to make sure they have their facts straight.

This approach, he said, requires both «great humility» and «great fear» as protections against hubris.

«Cormac McCarthy's thought experiment in» The Road» exposes one terrible fact to which our technological hubris blinds us: our dependence on biological reproduction remains absolute.

America is not and, please God, will never become Nazi Germany, but it is only blind hubris that denies it can happen here and, in peculiarly American ways, may be happening here.

Okay, how about imperial hubris?

I think that the Supreme Court of Canada has got it just about right, independently contributing to justice and democracy, while avoiding hubris and exercising restraint.

Using laborers specially flown in, it recreates the workings and the product (chocolate - covered marshmallows) of the candy factory in Mr. Murillo's hometown in Colombia, enacting his humble beginnings with the self - mythologizing hubris typical of young males wielding paintbrushes.

Countering our human tendency toward hubris, this passage proclaims that the natural world can offer us spiritual insight.

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.

Nari Ward: G.O.A.T., again will examine how hubris creates misplaced expectations in American cultural politics.

What is this — some early - day hubris, of a people set to fall upon their proud heritage of uncompromising fairness, as a diminished Roman great would fall on his own sword?

But more than just a riotously funny story about cinematic hubris, «The Disaster Artist is one of the most honest books about friendship I've read in years» (Los Angeles Times).

It's also where hubris comes from.

10) markets expect Greenspan put, forget about risk (thanks again Greenspan) 11) hubris filled CEOs and traders don't understand (or don't care about?)

My «vitriol» toward Jobs (an easy out for you) is in direct proportion to what he is obviously trying (successfully) to do but should not have said openly in a world that cares about the appearance of price - fixing — but a certain kind of hubris caused him to blurt out his foreknowledge of what the group of publishers would be doing — after he suggested they should.

Yet there was no sense of hubris here.