marichiko

From the American Heritage Dictionary:

Hubris: Overbearing pride or presumption.

During his long tenure in the financial world, Friedman has watched dozens of his competitors' businesses killed by hubris born of success rather than by unsound business decisions or adverse market conditions.
--Lisa Endlich, Goldman Sachs: The Culture of Success

This is the actor's hubris, to imagine the world possessed of a single, avid eye fixed solely and always on him.
--John Banville, Eclipse

With dizzying hubris, Shelley elevated the vocation of the poet above that of priest and statesman.
--Peter Gay, Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience


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Hubris comes from Greek hybris, "excessive pride, wanton violence."

If the shoe fits... That brief enough for you, HB? Patient DOES show a certain level of self-awareness...

And while I'm at it, if HB's arrogant attitude and sophmoric power of intellectual thought, combined with his excessively self-indulgent style of writing, is an example of the "old" Cellar, I would think that most people would welcome its disappearance rather than mourn it.

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