He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.
What were his weaknesses as a military commander: was it hubris?
The hubris of that position did so much to create and compound these problems.
Can Clinton help find the elusive middle ground in American foreign policy between the hubris of Bush and the reluctance of Obama?
Downes disparages this as hubris, “man too big for his boots.”
But genuine strength, as Tolstoy understood so well, comes from humility, not hubris.
But he was also a flesh and blood man whose life was full of humor, hubris and his own share of heartbreak.
Her hubris was in part, at all events, the result of ignorance.
Each Year arrives, waxes great, commits the sin of hubris, and then is slain.
Every year He waxes too strong and commits "hubris," and such sin has its proper punishment.
also hybris, 1884, a back-formation from hubristic or else from Greek hybris "wanton violence, insolence, outrage," originally "presumption toward the gods;" the first element probably PIE *ud- "up, out," but the meaning of the second is debated.
