Sentences with phrase «hubris which»

In claiming a definitive confidence, there is for Baker, consequences of hubris which reflect a truly complex lifetime of shifting doubts.

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

Each sees the existence of the human race as just one particular episode in a vast non-human immensity and is hostile to the hubris which would tailor the universe to the human scale.

Not exact matches

It wasn't NASA's «hubris» that caused those deaths, but more mundane, and rather slight, technological flaws, from which engineers learned much.

But he's also partly responsible for the hubris that damaged Yahoo with so many partners and advertisers — the very past from which Semel will want a clean break.

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.

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.

The trick is fooling the world into thinking there is some invisible evil spirit that made you do bad things so you can shift the blame for the greed, the selfishness and the hubris with which most religious zealots conduct themselves.

Hubris, mendacity and social hypocrisy in the service of irresponsible institutional power are the character of its contents by which this is accomplished.

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.

It is this dialectic of the love which can not accept communion with another, but tries to become absolute which lies in the depths of sin as hubris.

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.

All right all you God - mockers out there, I would like you to consider the following, even for a fraction of a second, which is probably your attention span: You are all suffering from what the ancient Greeks called HUBRIS.

It takes a bit of hubris to describe a recipe as «perfect», especially for something like cheesecake, for which so many have their own personal favorite.

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.

This is a poor long term manager, but in my opinion interim Tim is giving the squad the confidence (or hubris) which is necessary to challenge for the top.

In Alex Gibney's documentary, which debuted to a packed crowd last night, Spitzer calls himself «a person who lacked hubris.»

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«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.

But by far the bulk of the scientific literature hand - wrings, ponders, and philosophizes about the most familiar form of the Frankenstein myth, which Shelley flicked at in her «Modern Prometheus» subtitle: the idea that mad scientists playing God the creator will cause the entire human species to suffer eternal punishment for their trespasses and hubris.

Nothing called down the wrath of Nemesis on the head of its possessor quicker and surer than hubris, the wilful ignorance of our ignorance, the ignorance of the ignoramus, rather than the ignorance of Socrates, which has its roots in wisdom or the knowledge of our second - ratedness.

In contrast to this vision of reality as television, Sun Microsystems co-founder and chief scientist Bill Joy depicted a dystopian world in which the hubris of the human race will engender nonprotein life - forms that will multiply and threaten the planet.

By contrast, Scott was consumed with hubris, which is what killed him in the end.

It is an effectively searing attack on the war starting with the fallacies of rabid anti-communism which was a disguise for imperalistic hubris in aiding the French, thus missing the opportunity to aid Ho Chi Minh after World War II when it had the chance.

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.

The first half, anyway; as the trailer teases, Best F (r) iends is actually being released in two installments, which seems like exactly the sort of cinematic hubris you might expect from Wiseau.

He's all hubris mixed with total incompetence, which is how «The Room» became so uniquely bad.

Showing all the hubris of youth, [we] said, «You know, we could design a school that could do better than this,» and we did... This group of law students — we applied to the D.C. Charter School Board to start a charter high school, which is there to this day: Thurgood Marshall Academy... I served on the board of the school initially...

Isikoff is the author of two New York Times best - selling books: Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War co-written with David Corn, and Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story, which chronicled his own reporting of the Monica Lewinsky story.

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).

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.

Like all gaming systems, there are good games tucked within its library and despite Sony's immeasurable hubris, there are developers embracing what the platform can offer (which is no bad thing from a gaming point of view).

At the heart of the Bay Area Figurative movement — which detained Diebenkorn for about ten years — there was probably a growing reservation about «American - type» painting and its New World hubris.

Then again, hubris is something at which we humans excel.

As opposed to hubris and / or puffery, which is pretty damned detectable, whether in a tailor, a carbonated beverage or a pundit, and a pretty fair sign that you are not the best.

A sharp send - up of authoritarian hubris — in which bloated, self - satisfied, bare - bottomed public officials excrete a foul diet literally to be swallowed by the masses — the etching «Doctrinal Nourishment» (1889/95) is one of Belgian artist James Ensor's most politically scathing works.

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 manner in which that is pointed out, however, is characteristic of the same sort of «hubris» I mentioned earlier... it's somewhat dismissive and something along the lines of «This is US only, though.

I recognise the old problem of knowledge — which you seem to have forgotten in a quasi-scientific hubris.

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).

The epitome of Silicon Valley hubris, Zuckerberg so richly deserves to be forever clowned on for the utter gracelessness with which he tripped and continues to trip over his own dick.