But her supporters and her party have not yet learned the lessons of her act of hubris.
With work on the bridge running late, the project is viewed by some as having parallels with Hull's quest to become the UK's city of culture: a costly act of hubris.
His prediction that his coalition would take power in September 2008 by persuading MPs from the government coalition smacked of hubris and the takeover failed to materialise.
In an earlier session, Lord Owen delved into medical detail about the 20th century's political leaders, from Winston Churchill dictating memos to his secretary while he lay naked in the bath, a common manifestation, apparently, of bipolar disorder, to John F Kennedy concealing a life-threatening disease from voters all the way through to Blair's messianic hubris.
No, it's hard to feel anything but pity for the Green party because their one MP might lose her job specifically because people rebel against celebrity hubris.
"With vision comes hubris," says Reynolds of a man who, to promote his vision of a new world order based around the United Nations and to counter what he saw as the European vice of imperialism, stood for a fourth term even as his health failed.
Fawned over, hailed as a genius, he indulged his hubris.
This is what allows Wall Street hubris, in many cases: the conviction that wrongdoers won't be caught, and if they are, that they'll get off easy.
Yet no scriptwriter of such a crime and corruption movie would have dared to so overdo the hubris as to have the president topple himself in the very week Fifa released its own actual movie in America, of self-glorification and Blatter sanctification.
By 2014, Monis had reached the edge of his hubris.
Dig out the ECB's glossy 2011 annual report and you will find a portrait of an organisation that is already making the transition from self-confidence to hubris.
