Is there a judge anywhere who could resist granting a prize to a writer who uses the word hubristic?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lust Bites] Reference

Perhaps "hubristic" is a better word, as to the long-term consequences of some of their activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthuman Blues] Reference

They displayed the "arrogance of power," they were "hubristic," and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salon] Reference

What hubristic hypocrisy Citigroup and the Mets peddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stanley Kutler: Citibank and The Mets] Reference

Gates is emblematic of a less hubristic administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stealth Warrior] Reference

As Alex Massie notes, the gloss has come of the hubristic SNP.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

· Say no to all dealings with the smug, hubristic, and glamorous.    From Wordnik.com.  [John O'Neil: Leaders and Purposeful Time] Reference

Such words would have been hubristic arrogance at the height of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: Fukuyama] Reference

That Hillary has a tendency towards hubristic pride, is nothing new.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary: Pledged Delegates "Just Like" Supers ��� They Can Switch] Reference

His arrogation of authority seems hubristic; his manner is often harsh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

For Prospero to play the role of forgiver of Alonso is truly hubristic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

It is this hubristic thing where they just feel they were above the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Celebrities Behaving Badly] Reference

Idealistic Democrats are self-righteous, hubristic, and hopelessly naive.    From Wordnik.com.  [RJ Eskow: Does the Clinton Campaign Think Idealism is for Suckers?] Reference

In no time at all, he was embroiled in all kinds of hubristic, malevolent snark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Smith: Shades of Roy Cohn: 87 Card Carrying Federalist Society Types In The White House and Justice Department] Reference

Unfortunately, this theory exalts a hubristic vision over the lessons of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Lakoff: George Bush Is Not Incompetent] Reference

That is the hubristic threat those reporting on these matters are operating from.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sirota: Threatening a Class War If Billionaires Have to Pay the Same Tax Rates As Janitors] Reference

Michael Sheen pulls off the egomaniacal, stubborn, hubristic Clough with panache.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Soccer Movies] Reference

In one scenario, Apple's rebuff of Adobe's new tool will be seen as hubristic folly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple's iPad war on Adobe and Flash] Reference

I have very high hopes for my Edith Wharton paper, too hubristic to mention here yet.    From Wordnik.com.  [evolver Diary Entry] Reference

(Of course, HRC's hubristic acceptance of that thinking was equally fatal to her campaign.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Penn: We Should Have Contested Caucuses] Reference

Shepard is saying that America is a father who needs to sacrifice his sons in hubristic wars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sam Shepard Tosses A Grenade] Reference

And terrible things happen when government is hubristic enough to think that it has cracked it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Refusing to talk with other leaders, even if you disagree with them, is childish and hubristic.    From Wordnik.com.  [feminist blogs in english » 2008 » September] Reference

This is when I found Jandel easy to dislike - hubristic and calculating and probably unreliable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stewart Nusbaumer: Film Review: The Oath] Reference

But, unfortunately, that's not a hubristic enough solution for Americans or possibly even Brits.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

History often needs the proper room to breathe, not the breathless instigation of a hubristic few.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kevin Sullivan: Western Hubris Won't Reform Iran] Reference

Given this, the certainty behind such forecasts as those made in the recent IEA Journal as hubristic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ben Carmichael: Energy Boon or Dirty Boondoggle: Which Would You Choose?] Reference

Too much confidence makes people and nations hubristic, while those on the receiving end feel conned.    From Wordnik.com.  [America’s New Shrink] Reference

Prospero knows that such power, even if limited to the world of the artist and his theatre, is hubristic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare]

Unlike the hubristic neocons of Washington, he is a big-tent evangelist, rather than an excluding sectarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE VIRTUES OF ENGAGEMENT] Reference

Yet in all the splendor there was something welcoming, homelike; nothing on the great hubristic Samos scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

Furthermore, it is "a warning against the hubristic belief that humans can fully control the world around them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology: The Law of Unintended Consequences] Reference

The house was just the proper size for someone of his rank in Athens; his Syracusan one would have looked hubristic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask of Apollo]

You know the story line, which dates back to the Greeks: a powerful, hubristic leader is brought low by his own flaws.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living Politics: The Disassembly of Tom DeLay] Reference

It was admirably hubristic, featured a rich collection of utterly bonkers supporting players, and involved storied locations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roderick Spencer: Guys, You Will Never Top Him, So Quit Trying!] Reference

But my profound hope is that he will eschew the hubristic and unnecessary need to prove himself on an impossible battlefield.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen C. Rose: Could Barack Obama Suffer The Fate of LBJ?] Reference

Never quite as famous or powerful, he died in New York some time in the 80s, the victim of an especially hubristic form of Aids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Smith: Shades of Roy Cohn: 87 Card Carrying Federalist Society Types In The White House and Justice Department] Reference

They are the aftershocks of history's most violent and hubristic century, the bills to be paid for fascism, communism and colonialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Everyone's An Amateur] Reference

Nothing was in excess, nothing hubristic; but he looked in death what he had long been in all but name — last of the Athenian kings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]