[We will] not let a bunch of terrorists control our country and our future". Displaying a hubris that is likely to be replayed in video clips for years to come, Saif boasted that his family had a "Plan A, Plan B and Plan C".
Cooper continues displaying his hubris when Katie takes him to the site of the real playtest, a cavernous mansion where he'll see realistic but harmless images created by the intracranial device Katie injected into him.
Certainly, bank bosses displayed the hubris of all big corporate baddies: paying themselves loads, making nutty expense claims (try an $87,000 rug) and, in one case, playing bridge in Detroit as their firm collapsed.
However, the recognition of novel ecosystems and anthromes should never be used to minimize the value of pristine environments, to contend that novelty is desirable, to adopt a laissez-faire attitude toward traditional conservation, to justify the abandonment of efforts to control invasive species, or to display professional hubris (Hobbs et al. 2013; Standish et al. 2013).
And to suggest that we can risks displaying the same hubris that Rohde aptly criticizes.
At a time when its erstwhile titans could do with displaying contrition, signs of hubris abound.
For all the Shakespearean elements of pride, betrayal and hubris displayed on Wednesday during the political theatrics, the government survived a confidence vote with unexpected ease.
But oftentimes skyscrapers also proudly display humankind's hubris -- and remarkably bad taste.
A giant Carrie-esque biblical punishment of the disgusting, mindless hubris displayed by these terrible, awful people.
It was launched in a dorm room at Harvard University's Straus Hall by a college dropout, Zuckerberg, who displayed the headstrong hubris of a Bill Gates or a Steve Jobs and resisted cashing out early (Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006, followed by a $15 billion bid by Microsoft).
