Sentences with phrase «same hubris»

I still think the hubris that allows people to think that better batteries or hydroponics will deliver us from CC is the same hubris concerned people show when they measure their words.

The hubris that allowed them to finish is probably the same hubris that told them it wasn't necessary to hire a screenwriter in addition to the few recognizable voice talents (Saoirse Ronan, Chris O'Dowd) to justify its existence as something other than a dare gone wrong.

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The same hubris goaded Kurunmi's tragic unhorsing; just as it is behind the unfolding but spectacular unravelling of the Afenifere gerontocracy, in contemporary Yoruba political country.

Not exact matches

Trying to compete at the same cost from such a weak position hints at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few years.

lately I've read and watched a fair amount of athiest literature and while I agree with the basic idea I would like to think the same things without the smug condescending hubris.

The same arrogance and hubris we see in those who are fanatically devoted to their religion is found in those of us who claim to be fanatically devoted to the notion of «reason».

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

Democratic incumbents who are entrenched and survived the Republican wave have combined timidity and hubris at the same time.

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 hubris was in thinking that I could decipher what balance sheet information there was better than other investors WITH THE SAME INFORMATION!

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 smaller sculptures from this period, now being exhibited at Knoedler (to April 24) were all conceived int the same three - month period in the summer of 1969 and relate particularly to Hubris, Haole Crater, Arch and Dial, as well as to earlier works shown in Hartford and Philadelphia in 1966.

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.

Hubris is not the same as knowledge.

Do we suffer hubris in imagining we can determine the future of the climate system when we can't seem to do the same thing with a much better understood and controllable system, designed and built by Man?

My reference to hubris was made simply to bring under your attention that horror scenario's expect mankind to continue growth at the same rate as ever: Assumptions like that used to be considered pipe dreams.

I refuse to fall into the same scientific hubris as AGW supporters.

It seems plain that a great many members of the American bar fell prey to the same strain of hubris that infected their clients.

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).

It's simply not possible, in the same way, for me to «know» what an orca «wants,» and a dangerous hubris, I would suggest, to imagine otherwise.