Sentence examples for overweening drive from inspiring English sources

Plenty of them are sincerely technical: "We are subtly introduced to the two overriding themes of the antisocial personality disorder (still labelled by many professional authorities "psychopathy" and "sociopathy"): an overwhelming dysphoria and an even more overweening drive to assuage this angst by belonging".

His works are filled with "bloodthirsty killers, figures of great ambition, people who are of overweening pride, drive and aspiration," in the words of Target Margin's artistic director, David Herskovits.

In time, driven by overweening ambition, a common theme in antiquity and not unheard of today, Atlantis set out to conquer lands of the Mediterranean.

What's more, the schools have allowed rankings organizations to drive their admissions policies and curricula, skewing them toward an overweening emphasis on making money.

Again, when the SDP was formed, it was substantially driven by economic policy, by a reaction to what they saw as overweening dirigisme in financial and business matters.

Here, we meant "overweening".

His vanity was overweening.

Self-deception, overweening vanity, misogyny.

Mr. Shyamalan generally torpedoes his movies with overweening self-seriousness.

Perhaps overweening vanity has run its course for the moment.

"Some sort of" — hand flap — "overweening pride, I suppose?