Sentences with phrase «hubris gets»

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.

PBF is the most complete fighter since perhaps SRL but even SRL's hubris got the better of him in the first Duran fight

Not exact matches

If you start to veer toward hubris or just plain lie, those bluffs can get you into trouble.

Budman's move is the antithesis of the world of startup hubris, where you begin with trying to get users and burning through venture money.

«Sometimes when we're working with Silicon Valley startups — particularly when they're well funded — the hubris and arrogance is difficult to get through,» he says.

In this Inc. interview he says «Your reputation is all you've got in life» and talks about integrity, positioning, stunts, hubris, and more.

The hubris has gotten so out of hand, in fact, that one prominent «presumption against war» advocate recently proposed that the Catechism be amended, so that a consensus of bishops, the faithful, and theologians (the last presumably shaping the judgment of the first two) be required for judging a given military action morally legitimate.

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.

Make no mistake, I generally support Reggie but his hubris regarding selecting late round LBs because «he knows what a LB should look like» is getting old.

I think activists can work to get Greens and Respect elected in a handful of FPTP seats and we must all hope for an embarrassingly massive Tory landslide (300 seats or so) on < 50 % of the vote that will make everyone see what an absurd situation we are in, make Cameron's parliamentary party more unruly and nekedly nasty and — crucially — smash the Labour Party so hard that both its right and its left give up all hope of ever winning a FPTP election again, and destroy the hubris that decrees that they never collaborate with other progressive / left forces.

And Haynes says that more - established researchers, who may have the hubris to exclude reviewers, may also have a better chance of getting manuscripts accepted.

Hollywood should realize that these big tiff things aren't nearly as impressive as they once were, particularly in the aftermath of three years of Iron Age combat apotheosized in the great «Lord of the Rings» pictures; when you've seen Orcs and hobbits fighting for the future of the world, it's a little hard to get excited about Persians and Greeks fighting over someone's imperial hubris 2,300 years ago.

Fundamentally incapable of getting along with anyone, he is reminiscent of a Warner Brothers cartoon villain in his unchecked hubris (think of the Tasmanian Devil or Yosemite Sam).

Stephen Frears, director of The Hit, My Beautiful Laundrette, Dangerous Liasons, The Grifters, High Fidelity, Dirty Pretty Things, The Queen and so many more quietly great films, seems to get a pretty significant performance out of Ben Foster in his biopic about the myth, hubris and ultimate downfall of American cyclist Lance Armstrong.

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

While much of Pumpkinhead is standard stuff featuring the dumb rich kids getting picked off at moments of high hubris, a few of these dumb rich kids reveal themselves to be complex, kind even, just caught up in a bad event and trapped within its consequences.

Whether he's burning through dozens of flubbed takes in front of an exhausted crew (including Seth Rogen as the exasperated script supervisor), insisting on filming a sex scene with his leading lady (Ari Graynor) with all of the members of the cast present, or getting a personal toilet installed in the middle of the soundstage, Wiseau struts his private despotate of fake brick walls like a perfect parody of directorial hubris.

This is a Greek tragedy of the highest order, all about how one man's even slight hubris and mistake has consequences no matter how slight his transgression is or how much he does to try to get out of it.

It's an insider's look at greed, hubris and the willingness of an elite few to flush the entire economy down the drain, so long as they are the ones who get to decide when.

The beauty of Leo's approach is his understanding that for all the popularity of the band, their story is essentially about the tragic fall of a genius («They say I got brains, but they ain't doing me no good»), who self - immolated above the torch of hubris and ambition at the height of his creative power.

As a teacher, Gold struggles to establish authority in her classes and generally fails, through hubris and rookie ineptitude; her students ritually defy her, going so far as to openly declare their intention to get her fired for the sheer sport of it.

Reason's Nick Gillespie clearly gets the gut - busting hubris,

As a longtime educator and education advocate, I got caught up in the hubris.

You've got to drinking «Naivete» or «Hubris» flavored Kool - Aid to talk that talk.

In one case that's getting linked around, I am pretty sure it is not RT's fault they only sold 10 books and paid $ 500 for a table to do so... I think it was just hubris, or maybe a poor calculation of return on investment.

There is no secret as to why a high percentage of the wealthy in this world get involved in real estate development (besides hubris)-- it's where the highest margins in real estate are to be garnered.

«Hubris may have gotten to them.»

I'm also afraid his hubris may get the best of him.

Wayne Thiebaud gets you to think about the folly and hubris of shaping the landscape to suit our needs.

I suspect hubris and years of getting away with fabricating AGW story lines may have also played a large part in this.

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.

Here, some toxic combination of hubris and ignorance led to real consequences for the families of the shooting victims and for the defendants that didn't get the fair trial they deserved.