Sentence examples for born of hubris from inspiring English sources
Or perhaps it was born of hubris.
Journalists tend to see the financial mess as a scandal born of hubris and greed.
The PowerPoint paintings give the impression of a cool, rational, step-by-step logic born of technocratic hubris.
For many it was Iraq – but we should remember that was born of idealistic hubris, not malignancy, a belief that we could overthrow fascist dictatorships and install humane liberal democracies in the world's trouble spots.
Stage one is hubris born of success (possibly brought on by reading the case study of the firm in one of Mr Collins's earlier books).
He described a five-stage process, with self-explanatory headings to mark each one: hubris born of success, undisciplined pursuit of more, denial of risk and peril, grasping for salvation, capitulation to irrelevance or death.
First comes hubris born of success; second, the undisciplined pursuit of more; third, denial of risk and peril; fourth, grasping for salvation; and last, capitulation to irrelevance or death.Only 18 months ago Toyota displaced General Motors GMM), a fallen icon if ever there was one, as the world's biggest carmaker.
Now the stages of decline that he maps out in the book — hubris born of success; undisciplined pursuit of more; denial of risk and peril; grasping for salvation with a quick, big solution; and capitulation to irrelevance or death — offer a kind of instant autopsy for an economy on the stretcher.
More than a few Broadway bloggers compared Ms. Taymor to Arachne and noted that in the Playbill, the character is described as born from hubris — "a special word for the sort of arrogance that makes you forget your own humanity".
Vietnam was an unnecessary folly born out of arrogance, even hubris.
