Sentence examples for our arrogance from inspiring English sources

John Gray, in his bleak yet bracing new book, once again addresses himself to the follies, delusions and willed blindness of our smugly arrogant times, in which, despite our arrogance, we cower before the twin menaces of old and new barbarisms.

And our arrogance only deepens.

In matters of race, our arrogance increasingly seems misplaced.

Did the Hohokam share our arrogance born of technological mastery?

This reveals our arrogance and disdain for powerless Okinawans.

Our arrogance bred ignorance: we were not even curious.

I would say the great city of the United States is the great city of the world, the dense 10-mile-long island called Manhattan, where the economic and media power of the nation resides, the city that is the psychological center of our modernity, our hedonism, our creativity, our hard-shouldered hipness, our unthinking arrogance.

Now that we're well into "The Great Recession" we can reflect on our own arrogance, why our best-laid plans never come to fruition, why great armies lose small wars and why our financial crisis has so far refused to respond to traditional fiscal stimulus.

We have created so many idols as church leaders and Orthodox believers - with our divided jurisdictions, our territorial disputes, and our pious arrogance - that we can no longer even discern the essential identity and ultimate purpose of the church.

Charlie Sheen and Muammar Gaddafi might just offer us an exaggerated reflection of our own unacknowledged denial about our national arrogance.

Ironically, it may eventually be our own decline that solves our trade problems, by rescuing us from our own arrogance and stupidity.