Sentences with phrase «hubris leads»

We are human and our hubris leads us to believe we can make decisions in real time better than any formula.

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

Prestige, political and social agendas, and just good old fashioned hubris lead people to fiercely hold opinions.

Some of the mapinguari tales are just as fanciful: It is an old Indian whose hubris led him to seek immortality and who is now relegated to wandering the forest forever as a stinking, shaggy bicho (beast in Portuguese); it has a single eye, loves tobacco, and twists off the upper skulls of its human victims so as to suck up their gray matter.

Though Smiley's hubris led to his downfall, he emerges as such a versatile and resilient figure that one expects we will hear from him again.

But I can guarantee you this: Some people you know repeatedly let fear, greed and hubris lead them to make poor investment choices.

I could dig up volumes of similar hubris leading to failure and even disaster.

Not exact matches

This brand of hubris is on a par with the conditions which led to the 1929 crash and Great Depression as revealed in the U.S. Senate hearings of the early 1930s.

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.

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

The sixties generation's inordinate self - regard; their demand to be given, without striving for it, all the goodies their society had to offer, including, of course, easy sex; their recourse to the instant and unearned sense of power and comfort supplied by drugs; their refusal to serve their country; their general ingratitude, expressed most of all in their declared intention to lead lives in no respect like those of their forebears — all these were translations of the hubris that, partly unconsciously but entirely influentially, constituted the basic underpinning of their upbringing.

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.

Sen. John DeFrancisco (R - Syracuse) said it was Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's hubris that led the state to not only spend $ 8 million on the signs but also to use transportation funds marked for emergencies to erect them before the July 4 holiday in 2016.

«What I did was not only wrong, but was a consequence of hubris and a failure of judgment and self - indulgence, which is absolutely inexplicable and unjustifiable, improper, and I would agree probably with most of Mika's characterizations about me,» Spitzer said, asked what flaws led him to break the law.

His hubris has led him into a scheme to build a national stadium but a rival developer has connived to thwart his plans.

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.

He talks about how his reasons for joining Starfleet were much less heroic and proud as his late father, wracked it seems with more self - doubt than we've seen before; perhaps facing down Khan and almost dying quelled some of the hubris that led to his recklessness in both previous movies.

If Ben can just keep his hubris in check for a little while longer, he will be back as big as ever, but some of the same motivations that lead to his demise are threatening to take him down again, and for good.

The lead players» weaknesses — hubris, hypocrisy, vaulting ambition, blind loyalty, Catholic guilt — are entirely predictable, but the story's complex storylines are not.

Its title referring to multiple elements of its tale, it's a portrait of hubris, ambition and insanity, led by a collection of excellent performances that root the action in a complex sense of emotional and psychological upheaval and disintegration.

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.

Blackberry (and Nokia) lost their leading positions because of hubris.

What kind of hubris could lead to these positions?

We have fewer presuppositions than most of the world, and that leads to innovative solutions, a certain amount of unnecessary chaos, and occasional hubris.

But it's the classic story of one man's hubris and how it led to his downfall.

This would also lead to Sony's downfall as the hubris of the PlayStation 2's 155 million sales led to the pricy reveal of the PlayStation 3 which offered backward compatibility with all previous PlayStation consoles and could play Blu - ray but cost $ 499.99 for the 20 GB model and $ 599.99 for the 60 GB model.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

The science fiction lover in me appreciates such scenarios and fixes and even at times thinks such fixes will lead us into technological advances we wouldn't have had without such a crisis, but the ordinary human in me fears our hubris.

At one time, the hubris of global warming scientists led them to believe their climate models could explain / predict the future ENSO variations.

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.

This whimsical taxonomy of animals serves well to remind me that my impulse to categorize simply everything and create order in the world could lead to hubris or nonsense (which may be the same thing — depending on how you categorize them).