‘a hubristic belief in his own self-proclaimed genius’
‘It is dangerously ambitious, if not outright hubristic, to use Homer's poem about the rage of Achilles as your source.’
‘His decision to specify something bigger, better or more daring than the norm was logical, not hubristic: he believed it would result in a faster, safer, smoother-running railway.’
‘In its war on the press, this hubristic administration may finally have crossed a bridge too far.’
‘Turning the world upside down is a dangerous, hubristic aim.’
‘I thought this celebration might be a tad hasty and hubristic as there were still two cards to come.’
‘They are missing the fact that his dream was so hubristic as to be delusional.’
‘The likelihood of suffering tragedy increases with a hubristic belief that we have everything under control.’
‘This offers a window into the corporate record industry's hubristic faith in endless growth.’
‘It would be hubristic for any critic to think he is absolutely right and the mainstream record-buying public are absolutely wrong.’
‘The administration's hubristic foreign policy has been efficiently exposed as based on nothing more than hallucination.’
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