hubristic

Until recently, it was easy to dismiss such ambitions as the hubristic musings of a young upstart.

It sounded like a recipe for hubristic calamity: take an ancient Chinese legend, a former Britpop star and a designer of cartoons.

A hubristic America, however, then walked into a trap of its own making by invading Iraq in 2003.

This first-contact mission is about returning you to full consciousness, not assuaging a pampered and hubristic few!

It was a terrible miscalculation: rather than bow to a hubristic company, the government banished it from the tender process.

Political humour is a manner by which arrogance and hubristic tendencies of those who are in power may be prevented from taking shape.

Such firms were too big to be a target of private equity, even at its most hubristic.

The results of this investment are sometimes hubristic , but often impressive.

The book presents much hypocrisy and not a little hubristic behaviour.

I thought "The End of History" was hubristic nonsense.

He aced every requirement for a hubristic CEO.

To "re-order this world around us, " as Blair put it, is a huge undertaking, perhaps even a hubristic one.

To some, the boast last autumn that the euro is a haven from financial storms was hubristic .

Americans are so addicted to techno-surfing that they've gotten hubristic about how many machines they can juggle simultaneously.