I had this hubristic feeling, like "Repeat Pleasure" for instance.
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IT IS LESS ubiquitous than Airbnb and less hubristic than Uber.
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The hubristic belief that it had led to critical policy mistakes.
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The play's narrative arc makes Lehman Brothers' hubristic fall seem inevitable.
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It is a hubristic creature, and it likes to be entertained.
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The film is far from hubristic but it ends on a confident note.
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Google kept the largely vacant network running for an unfathomably hubristic eight years.
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It's stunningly hubristic, pushing an argument that's been used to silence people for decades.
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In the story a hubristic big-game hunter named Eckels pays Time Safari Inc.
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Oligopolistic, hubristic and ruthless to its core, Silicon Valley is no beacon of moral leadership.
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The trip up north felt like punishment for our hubristic attempt to change holiday routine.
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For the sake of the sport, he needs to expose McGregor as a hubristic interloper.
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But Blahyi has often appeared proud, if not hubristic—an unsettling pose for a penitent.
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We, the nation, are understandably angry about this, and yet somehow our anger feels equally hubristic.
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The most successful ownage finds hubristic targets, people who think they know more than they do.
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Downey is the perfect hubristic Tony Stark, an arrogant billionaire sobered by becoming a prisoner of war.
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Consequently, neorealist photographs were produced as operatic retellings of the immediate past — dramatic, heroic, hubristic, and sometimes even farcical.
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This hubristic attitude, in addition to branding and cost, has clearly informed the choice to publicly beta-test Autopilot.
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The state still makes a "hubristic assumption" that it knows best how private-sector companies should structure their workforces.
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Hubristic statements like this one force us to reckon with the precious, deliberately off-putting quality of Private Novelist.
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Hubristic Gen-Xers, the three never stop filming one another, even when it's clear the end may be imminent.
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From there, the field of endocrinology, as this compelling history shows, has manifested extremes of ingenuity and hubristic error.
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But ownage is itself a hubristic act — it turns knowledge into a tool for exploiting another person's lack thereof.
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That's my point: Cognitive biases are so pervasive and subtle that it's hubristic to ever claim we've escaped them entirely.
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We'll die by robots, or aliens, or environmental catastrophe, or nuclear threats of our own hubristic creation, or capitalistic overconsumption.
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Yet Mr. Hnath approaches what might seem like a hubristic project with the humility and avidity of an engaged Everyreader.
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In Genesis, a new abundance of languages foils the plan: when no one can understand anyone else's instructions, the hubristic construction stops.
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It calculated that it would be able to get away with doing the legal bare minimum; that calculation now looks ridiculously hubristic.
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Gerrymandering is a hubristic act by those in political power who seek to pull the wool over the eyes of the electorate.
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Paleocons are largely isolationist, warning America against foreign entanglements and dismissing neocon attempts at democracy promotion as hubristic and doomed to failure.
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There's a long history of horror stories about hubristic scientists playing God and suffering the consequences, but that's not what's going on here.
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This, ultimately, laid the foundation for a hubristic election campaign that ended in near disaster and the Prime Minister losing her parliamentary majority.
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The unnatural and hubristic attempt by humans to fly requires many of us to make a leap of faith when boarding a plane.
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Nor is it in the variously concerned or hubristic doctors, who were trying to develop a bird-flu vaccine and got something else.
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If the carmaking world were facing just one vast technological change, such ambition from a country with a short track record might seem hubristic.
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His maniacal self-belief and the aura of doom that surrounds him seem to beg for comparison to the hubristic men of the past.
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Even inside C.A.A. there was debate about whether the agency's move onto the playing fields of the world reflected strategic genius or hubristic disaster.
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Mr. Miller notes that the question of whether this push represented "strategic genius or hubristic disaster" has long caused controversy, both internally and externally.
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The indictment contained several juicy tidbits about Manafort's alleged transgressions, but perhaps the most ridiculous addition to the hubristic tale was to be found elsewhere.
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But since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, the tale of Ahab's hubristic vendetta against the whale has become an all-purpose political fable.
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Hubristic Democrats may survey their blue enclaves in the Golden State and dream of exporting their Loony Left revolution to the rest of the country.
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"It's hubristic to think we know the answer to that question today — and very premature to think we need to decide it now," Jenkins says.
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That's a reflection of the way Eno sees the world, in particular the hubristic cycle that leads to so many of the world's great tragedies.
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I find it difficult not to associate Mussolini's hubristic "menefreghismo" with Trump's smug, cavalier dismissal of all things at odds with him and his agenda.
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Over the past few decades, the image of Gates as a hubristic bully during the losing antitrust fight Microsoft waged in the 1990s has dimmed.
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And, once it was deemed to be exhausted, the consensus was that only the most hubristic (or nostalgic) young British artist would dare attempt it.
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Or can they be mad, crooked, hubristic liars, unfaithful husbands, self-absorbed and inattentive parents and still bear urgent messages we'd do well to heed?
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The two men beamed for the cameras and swapped gifts: a walking stick for Mr Davis, an account of a hubristic Himalayan expedition for Mr Barnier.
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Calling his collection "Future Heritage" seems hubristic until one considers that Mr. Jones's instincts and design chops have rendered him a real rainmaker for the brand.
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Most of the time, it's hard to feel much sympathy for hubristic startups that overestimate their future value but Pebble was one of the good guys.
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The film explores the messy, controversial issues around sexual consent, an astonishingly hubristic subject choice for a filmmaker under a cloud of suspicion around sexual misconduct.
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May's disastrous 2017 election campaign, a contest she precipitated in the hubristic expectation of a big win to help her push Brexit over the finish line.
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Hersh is not just an example but the template of a dogged reporter who will hold a violent and hubristic government to account for its crimes.
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The four-time K-1 Grand Prix champ, feared for his striking and grappling alike, put his brand on the hide of many a hubristic ego.
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Humanity may have lapsed into terminal tedium or hubristic stupidity, but that creature, with long, slender limbs and a cranium like a speedskater's helmet, remains interesting.
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The firm recently wrote down $22bn in goodwill at its power division, which makes turbines, as the result of hubristic and mistimed acquisitions made by Mr Immelt.
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Briefly, ten years ago, after its hubristic purchase of ABN AMRO of the Netherlands, RBS was the world's biggest bank, with a balance-sheet of over £2trn.
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Equifax protected some accounts connected to an internal portal in Argentina with the password "admin," in a move that was either incredibly amateur or hubristic (or both).
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The latter android is an eighth-generation synthetic, invented by Weyland to assist in his hubristic mission to discover the creators of mankind, far out in space.
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The Democratic Party must now move forward expeditiously to prove its case to the American people for bringing forth articles of impeachment against this dangerously hubristic president.
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Premiering on Netflix in 2014, BoJack Horseman is about a hubristic former sitcom star who smokes too much, drinks too much, has sex with everyone, and is awful.
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The original idea was to do a story about contemporary Kurdistan and contemporary Kurdish identity, which is a very hubristic idea for a non-Kurdish person to do.
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He's made a fool of himself, he's destroyed his career, he's fallen by his own hubristic sword, and in this one moment, he closes his mouth for once.
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Jemisin's hubristic high-tech civilization, which brought about its own doom and birthed the brutal and seemingly inescapable pattern of life in the Stillness, is not quite ours.
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In so doing, Vautier's hubristic verve has been increasingly trivializing (one might even say erasing) the once important concept of high art as a cognitive artifact of tasteful discrimination.
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After the hubristic purchase in 2007 of ABN AMRO, a Dutch lender, which led to its undoing, RBS was briefly the world's biggest bank, with assets of over £2trn.
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I ask James if he thinks 7,500 kids descending on one spot is in anyway representative of general youth culture or just a one-off night of hubristic shitfacing.
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Kloppenberg sees the era of America's founding as an apotheosis of his democratic vision, and the guillotine in France as its hubristic turning-point, the beginning of a long decline.
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That's what ultimately birthed Age Of, a borderline hubristic effort that melds the composerly, obsessive, synth-heavy pieces that have become his signature with a new pop impulse—in a relative sense.
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Puzzle piece by piece, interview by interview, Mr. Wardle fits together a grim story of hubristic doctors and their grotesquely unprincipled enablers who played with human lives in the name of science.
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In "Eastwatch," Davos does his best to talk sense into the hubristic leaders on every side of him, all while traveling Westeros at the speed of light and rescuing Gendry from purgatory apprenticeship.
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The long wooden trough arrives overflowing with enough meat—bacon, kebabs, kielbasa, blood sausage, grilled pork shoulder, and beer-baked hock—to pacify any band of mortals hubristic enough to attempt finishing it.
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Ten years ago, hubristic Wall Street geniuses came this close to destroying the global economy, saved largely by the Fed feeding trillions of dollars into banks in the U.S. and around the world.
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Others point out the hubristic, anthropocentric nature of the term, holding up the Ecomodernists and others promoting a techno-utopian fix as problematic examples of the humans-are-finally-masters-of-the-planet delusion.
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She's contemplative on spots like "KD Diary" and "Feel Something," but other times, she's downright hubristic, as on "Cheap Shit," where a pair of $303 boots don't cost enough for her high-end taste.
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Trump's hubristic tweeting of a US flag following Soleimani's death in a drone strike in Iraq but failure to explain to Americans what is going on may be a bad sign in this regard.
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Photo: Lisa Lake (Getty)Theranos, the hubristic firm that promised efficient blood-testing—and which was revealed by degrees to be writing checks its technology couldn't cash—still employed approximately 125 people earlier this week.
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But if you're worried about hubristic tech companies discarding some of the traditional guardrails that have been behind a decade-long bull run in the stock market — and centuries of IPOs — that's a bad thing.
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When it isn't shockingly frank about its challenges, the Uber filing is astonishingly hubristic: Uber says its total addressable market in various businesses is all money spent, period, reports the FT's Richard Waters and Shannon Bond.
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One wonders why Silicon Valley executives haven't gone down this path; perhaps the mantras of integration and a hubristic belief that they will never actually be forced to break up has shut down consideration of those strategies.
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They have attracted withering scorn from, among others, E.O. Wilson, a Harvard entomologist and the doyen of the belletrist arm of the conservation movement, who finds their hubristic ideas "as free of fear as they are of facts".
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Leeds United's hubristic descent from the semi finals of the Champions League to the third tier of English football is the most notorious example of how a "bounce-back" mentality can prove disastrous for a once-great club.
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Preternaturally articulate, Meg's psychic brother Charles can talk his way into and out of anything — and that includes convincing himself of the hubristic and near-fatal idea that he is strong enough to face IT on his own.
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Starring a slick-haired Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman at her most serene, Gattaca is a deserved cult classic, a highlight in the hubristic-humans-playing-God subgenre, the urtext for any discussion of the slippery slope toward eugenics.
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The most common take on the American Dirt fiasco is that it resulted from Flatiron's hubristic failure in what the industry refers to as "positioning" — that is, communicating the genre a house considers a new book to fit into.
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" And though he appreciated the "whimsical undertones" in Grande's lyrics (and there's no denying she is a star on planet earth,) he couldn't help but mention that it's "hubristic to compare oneself to such a powerful, luminous, life-giving celestial object.
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The fear that he would settle for a bad deal with Mr Kim, potentially upsetting the nuclear balance of East Asia by recognising North Korea as a nuclear power, increased with every hubristic tweet he put out on the summit.
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The heart-of-darkness framework — the hubristic Europeans finding themselves lost in the new world and descending into a corresponding savagery — is constructed with intelligence and finesse (if you don't count the "Man Called Horse" reference in the last episode).
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This fierce competition and population growth caused a hubristic over-exploitation of resources, driving the Rapanui people to desperation, and even cannibalism , and Europeans arriving in the 18th century encountered a society well on its way to decline, according to Diamond&aposs account.
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The two novels in the Jurassic Park series represent successive stages of catastrophic failure to control the movements and behavior of the dinosaurs as a result of Jurassic Park founder John Hammond's hubristic underestimation of complications caused by computers, biology, and disgruntled employees.
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All that each half-hour segment needed was a sturdy hook on which it could hang puns, pulpy pleasures, and purple prose; hubristic would-be masterminds plotting their perfect crime, average Joes stalked by unseen predators, lovers losing their senses in fits of feverish passion.
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Something's gone out of us since we explored the last of Earth; maybe some heroic overreach like a Mars program would get us all out of our cultural funk and inspire us to take on other equally hubristic challenges, like saving the world from drowning.
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Mr Rogers' mistrust of institutions, like that of the leaders who launched the Iraq war, is linked to a hubristic faith in his own moral righteousness: he believes that the world is divided into good guys and bad guys, and that he knows who is who.
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Singed by the memory of its hubristic excess of ambition, Samsung is returning to the Note series this year with a Galaxy Note 27 that appears to be the precise opposite: a phone so incremental in its upgrades as to scarcely merit the uptick in model number.
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Before his election, I wanted a Republican foreign policy that was less hubristic and more calculating than what most leading G.O.P. politicians were offering, that showed a willingness to limit foreign interventions and conduct diplomatic experiments while also trying to maintain United States primacy in a more multipolar, Chinese-influenced world.
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To attempt to create a program that successfully imitates the style of one of the greatest painters of all time is hubristic and doomed to fail, but those characteristics are just like catnip to the men and women at the bleeding edge of tech — and the result of their labors is remarkable and compelling.
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For the first time in almost two decades, Guns N' Roses are touring with their three most famous members — the singer Axl Rose, the guitarist Slash and the bassist Duff McKagan — all onstage, playing most of their pop-metal masterpiece "Appetite for Destruction" and little of the hubristic "Chinese Democracy," the record that led to their breakup.
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Having created a multibillion-dollar company almost single-handedly over nearly five decades, Mr. Armani — by training an architectural draftsman who entered fashion as a stylist and only reluctantly became a businessman after the death of his life partner, Sergio Galeotti, in 1985 from complications of AIDS — has built his career on cunning and, not infrequently, hubristic self-reliance.
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So, too, Mr. Trump's hubristic offer late in his trip to mediate China's disputes with its neighbors in the South China Sea, his failure to mention human rights and, above all, his disturbing defense of Vladimir Putin's lies about meddling in our election, combined with his insulting the United States intelligence community on foreign soil, overwhelmed any effort to assert credible American leadership.
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The pictures that he took of Stephen Tennant and his other bohemian friends not only mark the beginnings of his formal photography career, but also exist as invaluable documents of this sub-culture of young men and women who in 1920s London lived a life of grandeur and decadence typical of the 1890s — the decade that shocked the rigid Victorian morality with its hubristic aestheticism, sensuality, and transgressive openness to sexual and political experimentation.
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