overweening

How To Use overweening In A Sentence

• Hubris, sometimes spelled hybris ancient Greek ὕβρις, is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, self-confidence, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution. Touchy, Touchy: Catching Up With "The Climb"
• At base there is an enormous arrogance and an overweening ambition.
• It would seem that tips on playing competitive bridge, overweening pride, and short-term plundering were the leadership messages passed on through succession and down the ranks at Lehman. John O'Neil: President Obama's Future Leadership of Capitalism 3.0
• The ancient Greeks had a word for it: hubris, which might be defined as a kind of overweening pride, one that impelled mere mortals to believe they could act like gods. Antiwar.com Original
• But if she wasn't a go-getting 11-year old, she is making up for it at 29 with an overweening ambition to grow her company.
• The redemption of Judas, the challenges of pusillanimous leadership and the sin of overweening arrogance are handled deftly in this timeless tale.
• He stated in a haunted, whispered voice and Ikeda nearly apologized for bringing it up, but his overweening pride would not allow it.
• Seventy or so years ago the celebrated diarist James Lees-Milne wrote this: 'It became clear he was a man of overweening egotism. Roebuck on Mosley
• Although he was an academic, he did not appear to have the arrogance and overweening sense of self-importance that some of his kind possess.
• The actor conveys at the same instant the character's overweening pride, as well as an element of self-knowledge, which borders on self-disgust.