But hubristically, yet all too humanly, he lost control. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor’s Desk: The Confessions of Eliot Spitzer] Reference
Shame on him and his hubristically asinine campaign committee. From Wordnik.com. [Why Choose? Former Clinton Aide Begins Unity Drive - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
“Shame on him and his hubristically asinine campaign committee”?. From Wordnik.com. [Why Choose? Former Clinton Aide Begins Unity Drive - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
And so we hubristically snark about how voters will never elect such a national punchline to the highest office in the land. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Cesca: The Perfect Storm That Could Elect Sarah Palin] Reference
Today, this historic brewery is owned by the Radeberger Group, purveyors of the hubristically-named Radeberger Club Edition. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
The global political arena is still straightforwardly dominated by men and determinedly, hubristically masculine, and what about technology?. From Wordnik.com. [Yin and Yang « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
She somewhat hubristically, and I believe rather dishonestly, credits her new found contentment to herself, her will, her desire to bring it all about. From Wordnik.com. [Ester Amy Fischer: My Year of Eating, Praying, Loving: Healing Journey or Hocus Pocus?] Reference
Zemeckis has made strides to overcome that problem with Disney's A Christmas Carol, the hubristically titled new version of Charles Dickens 'classic story. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol] Reference
Someone said The Ruins is a metaphor for the Iraq war, you know, Americans going hubristically out and not knowing the language or the culture and getting into this hellish place. From Wordnik.com. [Bat-ter up!] Reference
In the face of countless electronic-music compilations, the Luaka Bop record label, run by David Byrne, faux-hubristically titled its entry The Only Blip Hop Record You Will Ever Need — and then added Vol. 1, in order to further hedge its bets. From Wordnik.com. [Disquiet » David Byrne’s Field Guide to Blip Hop] Reference
Star of the show is Shallow Obama displaying his characteristic narcissistic naiveté and hubristically peddling a heady Snake Oil mix of Global liberal Ideology and crass Utopian Homogeneity propaganda as a panacea for the human race - and currently sharing top billing alongside him we have ostensible Martyr-to-a-cause Mousavi riding on the bandwagon with a bag full of self-serving hidden agendas and handing out green ribbons. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Further, the output format ought to be determined hubristically from the. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
Which I am assuming, somewhat hubristically, that you might have already read. From Wordnik.com. [PSFK] Reference
Disney's A Christmas Carol, the hubristically titled new version of Charles Dickens 'classic story. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
His New Republic blog is hubristically called The Spine - as in Marty Peretz is the only one who has one. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The religious mind, however, hubristically appropriates the blind happenings of physics for petty moralistic purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Muti] Reference
"The religious mind," Dawkins continues - he also has in mind the 2004 Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina - "hubristically appropriates the blind happenings of physics for petty moralistic purposes.". From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Attempts to exceed and surpass society's norms can often be noble attempts to move society towards a higher ideal, but they can also be a hubristically tragic overstepping of natural human boundaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Institute] Reference
Mr. Bush's poorly conceived and ill-fated digression, the hubristically and tragically misnamed "Operation Iraqi Freedom," torched any momentum that the US had built up along any projected pathway to stability in Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [War in Context] Reference
The Cold War is over, won by the West, even if the outcome in Russia and east Europe hasn't been much of an advertisement for the capitalist market economy, and even if proclaiming "the end of history" now looks hubristically premature. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Reasons] Reference
Don't pretend that you don't know what I'm talking about, because it's become impossible to ignore: A generation of parents who spoil their children rotten -- hubristically buying into the notion that their specific spawn is somehow special and deserving of society's deference -- combined with the technology that gives every computer or text savvy kid a voice, whether he or she deserves one or not, has conspired to hijack a good portion of what we see and hear. From Wordnik.com. [Chez Pazienza: Kids Incorporated] Reference
13 Kennedy concludes that humanitarians believe hubristically that history will progress through the adoption of their principles and recipes. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
Rather it is a marginal Paris, populated by what the French would label des ratés, society’s losers who, for one reason or another, are brought down by a petty vice, or a greedy aspiration, that invariably leads to a bitter sense of failure in their lives … and, of course, a crime they hubristically think they can get away with. From Wordnik.com. [The 13 Culprits]
This is not hubristically predicting the future. From Wordnik.com. [just one thing I wanna know] Reference
In short, the GLOBAL production peak is very likely imminent, or has already passed unfortunately it will only be possible to ascertain it well after the fact. it is iow, already too late to DO anything about it. and if so, then our age of industrial civilization will remain a 'special case' - a brief spurt of activity, a millisecond in the geological time frame, basically a short-lived fart that we in our self-important anthropocentric view regarded hubristically as our natural birthright. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Things are About to get Interesting] Reference
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