-
their own
superiority the greater. In the Septuagint, the "hubris is
overweening pride,
superciliousness or arrogance,
often resulting in
fatal retribution...
- his
Hebrew subjects, one
rooted in a
perception that they
possessed an
overweening influence in Germany, was so
strong that it
could not be overcome". Cecil...
- also
detected in
Oppenheimer something that many
others did not, an "
overweening ambition",
which Groves reckoned would supply the
drive necessary to...
-
Holocaust denier,
describing him as a "dupe of
intellectual pride so
overweening that he is
incapable of
making distinctions between totalitarian and...
-
medium enterprises and
vigorous anti-trust laws to
restrain or
eliminate overweening economic power.
Christian democratic political parties such as the American...
-
restaurants as an
antidote for
Jewish parochialism, for the
exclusive and
overweening emphasis on the
culture of the Jews as it had been." Many of the people...
- extravagance". A film
critic for the Los
Angeles Times wrote that "Cameron's
overweening pride has come
close to
capsizing this project" and that the film was...
- and society, in
bringing to the
country a
permanent garrison state, an
overweening military–industrial complex, a
permanent system of conscription. It was...
- Cyclopes".
Homer had
already (Book 6)
described the
Cyclopes as "men
overweening in
pride who
plundered [their
neighbors the Phaeacians] continually"...
- pp. 499–500; Glatthaar, p. 287; Fuller, p. 198,
states that Lee's "
overweening confidence in the
superiority of his
soldiers over his
enemy possessed...
