Sentences with phrase «more hubris»

The more hubris - filled unemployed attorneys will do exactly what Rakofsky did; his story made the rounds, others» do not.

I think it's more hubris and professional ego.

Sonia, ABC journalism values are now more hubris than humility, and decency and humanity are rarely to be seen on this issue.

I think it's more hubris and professional ego.

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.

Not exact matches

There's also more than a touch of hubris in the idea that the media has somehow «made» Donald Trump what he is, or convinced millions of people to support him.

To do so, however, is more than hubris.

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

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

One could argue that a sense of hubris would overtake a management team who is more concerned about the family legacy than the shareholders.

and by the way, Obama has pontificated more than any other President in my lifetime so if you are going to preach about hubris in policiticians take a look at your current President!

True humility is more powerful than any hubris, and it comes only from the heart, where love resides.

That is having the hubris to make the claim that there are groups and categories more sinful in the sight of the Lord than any group that includes me.

Callahan has been a tireless crusader against the technological hubris and frequent fraud that drives more of medical research than we want to believe.

The hubris is the same for you, perhaps more subtle but nonetheless deeply assumed.

Just sayin» I have a difficult time seeing claims of divine intervention in individual's lives as nothing more than hubris masquerading as humility.

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.»

He concludes that more attention to the Bible did not necessarily mean more virtuous action; that personal engagement with the Bible did result in self - sacrificing service, but also in divisive hubris, mistaken interpretations (such as the identification of America with ancient Israel), and blindness to social evils; and that Protestant spiritual individualism undercut corrupt hierarchies and supported democracy, but also promoted political excesses and violent anti-Catholicism.

If we claim to know what we do not know, our programs for reunion become nothing more than a pious version of the hubris of Babel.

Its more distant ancestor is the Greek hubris — insolence against the gods.

As Martin P. Nilsson has suggested, hubris is not the sin of overweening pride but of taking upon oneself more in the order of being than one has a right to.

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.

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.

The film takes place during a presidential campaign, but its themes — betrayal, loyalty, trust, deception, ambition, hubris — are more universal than just politics.

I think Ratigan's motivation for entering the race at this point is nothing more than hubris.

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.

It was this new perspective more than anything else that turned gene therapy from a simple but failed and frustrated hope into, once again, medicine's next big thing — a stunning spectacle of hubris, ignominy, and redemption on the scientific stage.

The actuality of Tony Stark's witty arrogance meeting, say, Peter Quill's slacker hubris is almost as enjoyable as the idea of it, and only more screen time would let it play out the way even a non-fan might wish.

It is half - way between the stoner classic Smiley Face, and his more narcissistic - hubris laden debut The Doom Generation.

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.

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.

Produced by Hammer Films, that glorious British concern specializing in horror films that emphasize terror over gore, it is an elegant little flick, both creepy and atmospheric, that tells its tale of hubris and good intentions gone wrong with... Read More»

Any kind of truncation is just empty hubris or, giving Mendes the benefit of the doubt, pandering to those impatient masses who weren't gonna show up anyway (for starters, if the draw is the reunion of Kate & Leo, then I can't think of anything more repellent to a Titanic fan than the thought of their idealized couple quarrelling for two hours), so why not give the faithful what they came for?

«The Wolf of Wall Street» If the mark of a truly significant artist is their ability to continually provoke and outrage viewers in their later years instead of falling into a complacent rut, then Scorsese once again proved himself to be a provocateur for the ages with this jaw - dropping, eye - popping depiction of the true story of a crafty little weasel (Leonardo Di Caprio in what now stands as the performance of his career) who created a billion dollar empire out of selling crappy penny stocks and subsequently rode it into the ground in a blaze of greed, hubris and more cocaine than «Scarface» and «Boogie Nights» combined.

Those tasked with tackling the event are portrayed as hubris, more arch villains than happened upon workers.

But the hubris of believing that going bigger, more dramatic, more characters, more crossover power?

But more than just a riotously funny story about cinematic hubris, The Disaster Artist is an honest and warm testament to friendship.

I've already called a Hubris Alert on this one; I'm sorry, Mr. Chancellor, but when just 21 percent of your eighth - grade students are proficient in reading, I think a little more humility is needed.

What particularly caught my eye was my good friend Rick Hess's allegation that supporters of the Core (myself among them) were expressing hubris and vanity because we've decided that we need our arguments to be more «emotional.»

Let us take care that hubris, faddism, or untamed enthusiasm do not render these gifts more hindrance than help.

The claim that you know more about Jewish faith when you have not grown up in it is the height of condescending hubris.

Of course, One51's also another classic example of Celtic Tiger hubris & near - collapse — but its future definitely looks far more promising...

The game makes desperate engineers of us all, combing through the wreckage of our own invention and hubris while something even more dangerous stalks us from the shadows.

The recent economic past may be a harbinger of what's to come (slow decline of economic hubris and transition to more moderate lifestyles) and in ways it may be seen in some of the GNY work.

There is surely a jaded brand of cynicism at play here, surprising in an artist as young as Singer, but even more, these gestures indicate a critical self - awareness that is a much - needed antidote to the powers and hubris of an inflated art market and a faith in seemingly bigger, better art spectacles.

More in keeping with the New Museum's generation are performative works like Liu Chang's portraits consisting of «Buying everything on You» (2006/8) and laying it out on a large low - lying pedestal; Liz Glynn's ambitious «The 24 hour Roman Reconstruction Project or Building Rome in a Day» (2008 - 9) with all its attendant hubris, collaborators, and debris; or the environmental chaos of Ryan Trecartin's «Re'Search Wait»S» (2009).

Since you don't seem to know how meaningless «decadal trends» are, you use the only data set that gives you what you want and ignore the others, and you act as though there's no uncertainty in your «trend» estimate, your level of certainty amounts to nothing more than hubris.

I fear until global warming filters down to hit us personally or «inconveniently» on an experiential level, meaning something devastating and unimaginable like our children or family members die or are unrecognizably impaired, (of course I'm referring to the wealthier countries whose children aren't dying or suffering from our hubris immediately anyway), only then will we see an environmental revolution that produces less discussion and more visceral healing «action».

Ah - ha, yet more evidence of the very settle hubris that infect some in the unsettled world of climatography is built on faulty foundations.

Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?