Sentences with phrase «hubris involved»

But there is foolish hubris involved, for sure.

There is a great deal of hubris involved in arguing that the market as a whole is out - of - whack.

Another thing captured by Lowenstein was the hubris involved as they cashed out some investors in order to «favor» internal investors and close friends.

But wouldn't you agree that there is a certain hubris involved in presuming to baptize dead strangers who never shared your faith?

«In many of these cases, my view is that due diligence was either poor, non-existent or there was an element of hubris involved,» says Mike Komesaroff, managing director of Queensland - based Urandaline Investments, a consultancy specializing in China's minerals and metals industries.

Not exact matches

Hubris has made him blind to the perils of space travel, made him recklessly ignore risks and fail to understand all the issues involved.

Van Stralen: «There was some hubris in involved.

All of this because Gawker irritated a vindictive billionaire, and crossed the vague line between private and public information involving a celebrity — and, perhaps, because Denton was guilty of an excess of hubris.

It is a process that has involved various levels of human invention, expressing itself mainly in the development of technology and various other fields of human knowledge and endeavor, and I should add emphatically the various stages of human hubris that has expressed itself in the oppression and conquest of peoples by other peoples.

What hubris of all those involved.

«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.

❤ Who it's for: «Witty and intelligent singles» who are irritated by dates that involve «inane blather,... blank stares or humorless hominids with hubris.»

It may not be the brand's most involving drive, but the hubris - meets - competence ethos reeks of Porsche, with bells and whistles to boot.

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.

There's all this hubris and heroism involved in trying to drag across the mountain this huge thing that is the Venice Biennale.