Sentence examples similar to an overweening fool from inspiring English sources

The second vice is an overweening faith in theory.

"Personally, I feel I was an overweening coward in the war," he once said.

He didn't want an overweening government creating costly programs and interfering in people's lives.

While an overweening state can disempower, so too can failing markets or unjustified inequalities.

What seemed to be an overweening statement was not without merit.

One could take all this as an overweening act of sculptural hubris.

Instead big data politics will furnish an overweening state with arguments to justify ideological choices.

In answer to the overweening power of the president to deflect investigations, an office has been created with an overweening power to drag him into them on the slightest pretext.Mr Clinton could have been saddled with even more.

"It's an overweening concern for lost objects," she said last week — a very cold week, a great week for gloves.

Novels are, or should be, written in defiance of the now, in an imaginative sedition against an overweening present.

The Delhi government sees the army as its truest friend in Nepal, where it has long had an overweening influence.