After that, an excess of pride, testosterone, tradition and stupidity took over.
But Patrick also has an excess of pride and an explosive temper that occasionally skitters out of control.
This success leads him to succumb to an excess of pride ("hubris"), causing a fatal mistake, and his fall.
Ezekiel 16:49 suggests that Sodomites "had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy".
The headstone's quotation from Mrs G Linneaus Banks's 1876 novel The Manchester Man speaks to what this proud Mancunian once called "an excess of civic pride".
Occasionally, you'll find someone such as Manchester's Tony Wilson, a figure with such taste, energy and "excess of civic pride" that he can influence a city's fortunes for more than a decade.
A more appropriate home for a franchise these days seems to be a smaller city on the rise, with maybe a million to a million and a half people, plenty of money, local and regional art museums and a few ambitious restaurants but not too much else for its population to do, and an excess of civic pride ready to be harnessed.
Increasingly, however, it came to be linked with pride, excess of diet, idleness, and contempt of the poor.' The pamphlet's equation of effeminacy with homosexuality is identified by Michael Kimmel as distinctive for the period.
For example, the first interpreter of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, the prophet Ezekiel, condemns Sodom not for homosexuality but for "pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease" and for failing to "aid the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49).
Ezekiel, for instance, refers to the sin of Sodom not in terms of sexual immorality but rather justice: "This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy" (16:49).
