Sentences with phrase «with hubris»

Firms may agree or disagree with George Beaton's and Imme Kaschner's presentation, prognosis and prescription in Remaking Law Firms: Why and How — but only those with hubris or myopia will disregard this compelling work.

Only those filled with hubris would think otherwise.

In other words, we must approach the topic with humility, rather than with hubris and arrogance about human control over nature or over technology.

But the difference between Joshua and myself is that I make my best informed guess on the issues based on: what other more qualified people say; review to the extent possible of their basis for saying what they do; and with a healthy dose of skepticism based on my lifetime experience with the hubris and ignorance of those who consider themselves «experts» in many fields.

With hubris and bravado, the Ferus artists together created a collective vision of what they thought art could and should become.

Walk into any AF school and the truth will be seen - Students being demeaned and disciplined for not meeting ridiculous expectations, unacceptably high suspension rates, unacceptably low Special Education numbers and alarming Special Education noncompliance, predominately white leadership that is filled with hubris and a deep disconnectedness with the school's children and families, burned out teachers, high teacher turnover, etc..

Michelle Rhee is the Alan Greenspan of corporatized school reform: deluded, brimming with hubris and a self - serving megalomaniac.

«But she didn't come to the process with any hubris, so any moment where she hadn't done something before or hadn't experienced something before she was always asking the right questions.

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It poisoned the minds of politicians who acted with hubris and paranoia.

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

Like most men who scale high mountains, he has had close calls with hubris.

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.

Candidate Muhammadu Buhari, hardly a revolutionary in spite of his ascetic contempt for graft, struck the right message; the people keyed into it; and Jonathan, with his hubris - stricken Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), became shameful history!

During this time, I have not noticed that my doctors are afflicted with the hubris that regards death as an accident that can be prevented.

That it happened to Uber seems to be a bit of bad luck blended with hubris, adds Brauer, noting that in some 2.5 million miles and years of testing the most that has happened to Google's autonomous cars are low - speed bumper dings.

And you can do that, not with hubris or brash posturing, she continues, but by logging the hours and doing the work.

Not exact matches

That, combined with a streak of hubris, brought a decade - long antitrust battle between the company and the U.S. Justice Department, as well as 20 state attorneys general.

Budman's move is the antithesis of the world of startup hubris, where you begin with trying to get users and burning through venture money.

«Sometimes when we're working with Silicon Valley startups — particularly when they're well funded — the hubris and arrogance is difficult to get through,» he says.

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.

The company frankly admitted that the shortages were caused by its own hubris, with Tesla putting too much new technology into the first version of the Model X.

Isikoff has written two best - sellers, «Uncovering Clinton» and (with David Corn) «Hubris,» about the selling of the Iraq War.

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.

I also posted what I considered almost a throw away post about bias I perceive in the Kansas City Star and the hubris (again, as I see it) of the Stowers Institute with regard to SCNT research.

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.

Tyerman is not unaware of this, although he is quick to disclaim any such comparison: «It would be folly and hubris to pretend to compete, to match, as it were, my clunking computer keyboard with his [Runciman's] pen, at once a rapier and a paintbrush; to pit one volume, however substantial, with the breadth, scope and elegance of his three.»

Croesus» hubris results in the loss of his kingdom, and his freedom, to Cyrus, who in turn repeats the pattern: After gaining great wealth, he decides - even though Croesus himself warns him against it - to invade a poor country, and he loses not only the war with the Massagetae but also his life.

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.

In such words some claim to detect not humility but hubris, an uncritical identification of our purposes with the purposes of God.

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.

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.

Your godlikeness can also be a pitfall, because in our hubris we often confuse being like God with being God.

Conservative Protestant theology — especially those elements influenced by fundamentalism — is seen as suffering a kind of hubris with regard to truth - claims.

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.

But in very substantial degree, the dismantling of the social - welfare system undertaken by the Reagan administration with the blessing of fundamentalist preachers and their followers reflects the atrophy of the ethical conscience and the growth of self - centeredness, the hubris of the successful and their scorn for those less adept at «making it.»

Such a death would certainly be an example of technological hubris, but no one should believe that this is routine care for elderly patients with terminal conditions.

St. Francis» kinship with all creatures undoubtedly made him look pretty silly sometimes, but he appears, well, saintly, compared to the hubris - ridden scientists cooking up the genome project for genetic mapping and alteration of the human species.

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.

It finally took years of deceit from the team's owner, relocation, and that special brand of 7 - 9 bullshit (and the hubris that went with it) before I finally decided that enough was enough.

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.

Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power.»

Who is going to cover the D??? Bould???? What the F*ck is wrong with you???? How can you be so F*cking stupid, WHy so much hubris, so much unnecessary pride, Why do nt you f*cking ever learn from your own f*cking past mistakes?????

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.

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.

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.

Taylor later crushed Frampton's hubris — along with Frampton's body — during a fourth - quarter punt return: a great block that helped set up a score in a blowout victory and sent a message.

With what just happened to Michigan State, we saw first hand what happens when you shake off hubris, stop being complacent, and actually evaluate the problems to the gameplan.

Never mind that everyone has the right to live their lives the way they see fit, and it takes an incredible amount of hubris to tell other people what they «should and should not» be doing with their lives.