Sentence examples for overweening pride from inspiring English sources

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

Stupefying sleep deprivation, baffling health concerns, alarming new expenditures, overweening pride.

He carried the substitute name of Epiphanes, a Greek word meaning "god manifest". A conqueror of overweening pride, as he is described in the Book of Daniel in the Bible, he set out to seize Judaea (or Judah), which until then had been a province of Egypt.

Whether this approach is a sign of overweening pride or impressive leadership depends on the outcome of the investigation into the emissions cheating scandal.

It succeeded enormously at first, only to eventually succumb to the folly of its managers' overweening pride as its most sophisticated computer models failed to anticipate commonsense economic problems, leading the hedge fund to spectacular failure by 2000.

"I realize now that my downfall was my overweening pride," he said.

And of course, as the papers at last and reluctantly released by the Bank of England today show, pride and overweening confidence played their part in the economic crisis that began in 2007.

Tragic outcomes are all well and good (ish) if they've been set in train by crime, hubris or overweening something-or-other – pride, passion, obsessive coveting of Maltesers – but sorrow, terror and death visited upon the gentle and undeserving are right out.

"But we will be Vietnamese inside". This pride in the face of a Maine winter and the necessity to accept a "kitchen shower" would be overweening except that the young men have no illusions about their situation Usually Hien's bitterness shows up only in irony, but if the question is put, he will admit that, though only 36, he sees no future for himself in this country.

Here, we meant "overweening".

His vanity was overweening.