Sentences with phrase «hubris on»

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

But the hubris on display in connection with this latest tax tempest in a teapot is breathtaking.

These products, their producers say, are the future of the book — RocketBook, in a moment of high hubris on its Web site, even equates its product with the invention of papyrus and the debut of the Gutenberg press.

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.

Both are embued and drenched with hubris on steroids.Huntsman was nervous, and made no compelling case for his POTUS ambition.Romney remained standing at the end.

His desire for the nomination in 1964 was hubris on steroids.

No manager could turn him into TH14 and it was hubris on Wengers behalf to think he could be anything more after learning how 1 dimensional he is.

You seem to be claiming hubris on the part of Athesits, and this much may be true.

Since then his independent reports, which have challenged industry and government hubris on a number of energy matters, are often quoted in publications as varied as Nature, The Economist, the Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, USA Today and The Tyee.

Not exact matches

We can rely too heavily on past returns to predict future performance, seek out information that confirms our beliefs while ignoring counter-arguments, and fall victim to group - think and our own hubris.

Wharton Business School professor Ethan Mollick co-authored a paper on female entrepreneurship claiming that women are defined by humility, and men by hubris.

His hubris, on full display as he preens and gossips and makes catty remarks about Trump's spray tan and hand size, quite possibly put this man he considers a dangerous buffoon in office.

For its latest Model X sport - utility vehicle, Tesla blamed a components shortage in part on its own hubris.

I think there are many similarities to the dot - com era of hubris that's going on in the marketplace today.

-- William Cohan, author of HOUSE OF CARDS: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street and MONEY AND POWER: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

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

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.

Hubris, meanwhile, is not a fair label to apply to any person who thinks differently and has the courage to assert or act on their convictions.

On the contrary, claiming infallibility for one's conclusions is a sign of hubris.

We are informed at the beginning that the signal was never decoded, and so the novel is less a story of scientific triumph than a series of ruminations on hermeneutics, the hubris of scientists, and the sociology of academic cohorts.

For the sake of everyone she helps, I'm glad she ignored his hubris and went on to help the dying in the manner that they need, not what someone else thinks they need.

The prevailing impression is one of administrative hubris and a top - down, micro-managerial approach intent on fitting academic research on the Procrustean bed of donor - driven funding models and neo-utilitarian criteria of «relevance.»

To not only claim to know there is a God but to claim you know his name and how he wants all his slave humans to behave is beyond hubris, it is self deification, claiming to know the mind of God, regardless of whether you rely on some ancient book for that knowledge or not.

When virtually every expert in the field agrees that the Theory is a fact, arguing that because the details aren't all agreed on the theory is false is silly and requires enormous hubris.

The awful moral choice forced on Senator Kerrey is a commonplace aspect of war, not understood at all by professors and editorial writers who imagine, with obscene hubris, that they could avoid the guilt feelings associated with combat.

The bigger problem however, is that most people relish in their ignorance and don't wish to educate themselves on different cultures and / or point of views and are content with their own hubris.

The confidence that they will not, it is to be feared, is based on little more than sentimental naivete and the unseemly hubris of our assumed moral superiority to «them.»

no peace, everything hinges on what YOU can do, but it is hubris to suggest you control or have a role in EVERYthing that happens to you.

What is going on, I suggest, is an untoward national hubris married to the defense of an outdated model of the Church's role in world affairs: A model that worked reasonably well at the 1814 - 15 Congress of Vienna but that came close to causing disaster in the 1970s.

The opening chapter on Emerson, whose thought created «most of the context of these five books,» criticizes him for extolling the virtues of unrestrained individualism to the point of romanticizing a national character prone to hubris.

On 9/11 we lost the former illusion, but our leaders are invoking that experience to reinforce our hubris and our obliviousness to the consequences of our actions.

A brief list includes his calculated stealing of his college roommate's girlfriend (his eventual wife, Macel); an investigation into his enterprises by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the 1970s; the founding (and eventual disbanding) of the Moral Majority and the hubris such a title implied; his suing of pornographer Larry Flynt; his somewhat hostile takeover of Jim and Tammy Bakker's PTL enterprises at the height of the televangelism scandals; his visible support for «The Clinton Chronicles,» an irresponsible, rumor - mongering pseudo-documentary; and his attack on Tinky - Winky the Teletubby as a closet homosexual.

Instead, the guys use eight special blends of chiles, torment, and vengeance to punish the hubris of anyone who thinks they can handle superhots on steroids.

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.

I hear the knocks on Brown, he has his flaws, but to assume we can replace him in the draft, especially with Staley retirement talk in the air, feels like hubris to me.

Unfortunately, that hubris backfired on her.

War, on the other hand, was very much in, and while the majority of the First World War was a muddy, depressing exercise in imperial hubris and mechanised slaughter, dogfights came out the other side with their reputation enhanced.

Washington insisted on single coverage against Stokes, and it paid for this hubris: Stokes scorched the Huskies for 10 receptions, of which four went for touchdowns.

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.

Ladd, Parenteau, and Chimera show their age, Capuano relies on Seidenberg at the expense of Pulock, management hubris sends Halak packing while Greiss declines under the heavier workload, and J - F Berube shows why you don't bet on young goalies based on AHL team success and how much you like their work habits.

Triple H was caught up in the gravitational pull of his own hubris, feeling he could take on Ronda Rousey in a match where men aren't supposed to be fighting against women — he nearly paid for it with a broken arm.

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.

I thought he was ready, mostly based on his age, what other people's kids were doing at the time, and a vague bit of hubris that he seemed advanced in a few other areas (verbal, mostly) so clearrrrrrrrly he was going to train as soon as realistically possible.

It's a story of hubris, mistrust, greed, incompetence, and turf battles that live on today.

prosecutors high on hubris.

And add to this that, when Cameron goes on the attack, it helps to reinforce the negative qualities that are now increasingly being associated with him by the media, and in the public consciousness - coldness, arrogance, tendency to hubris.

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?

To dismiss the jubilance on display at the party's recent conference as hubris is to misunderstand what's going on.

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.

If they see customs delays on the horizon they'll be forced to move to mainland Europe by a combination of UK hubris and their own established manufacturing methods.