over-weening

"Here, you pagan, you, you stolid and flesh-fettered ox, you monstrosity of over-weening and perennial health and joy, what do you think of it?"

CHAPTER IX 2010

Though this is a dangerous strategy, it may well be that as the EU over-reaches itself in the pomp of its over-weening ambition that it pays out yards and yards more rope with which we may sooner rather than later hang it.

Legitimacy Is The Treaty's Achilles Heel 2008

Though this is a dangerous strategy, it may well be that as the EU over-reaches itself in the pomp of its over-weening ambition that it pays out yards and yards more rope with which we may sooner rather than later hang it.

Archive 2008-01-13 2008

Socialism is unlikely ever to work here precisely because the Anglo-Saxon mentality is to resist such accretion of power and to stick his fingers up at over-weening authority.

Archive 2007-05-27 2007

Citation in Italian, and words like Frauendienst (Service of the Lady) and ὕβρις (hubris, over-weening pride or supercilliousness) are all deemed beyond students' abilities.

Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Stephen Barney (Norton, 2006) Miglior acque 2008

Citation in Italian, and words like Frauendienst (Service of the Lady) and ὕβρις (hubris, over-weening pride or supercilliousness) are all deemed beyond students' abilities.

Archive 2008-09-01 Miglior acque 2008

Given that the man is a pig-ignorant fuckwit with an over-weening arrogance have he and Polly Toynbee ever been seen in the same room together?

Archive 2008-06-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

Must he not rather in the sight of all men smoke out the animating causes here — greed, over-weening ambition, colossal self-interest as opposed to the selflessness of a Christian ideal and of a democratic theory of government?

The Titan 2004

They greedily imbibed this belief; and their over-weening credulity even rendered them eager to make converts to the same faith.

The Last Man 2003

His pompous and inflated style, his uncommon arrogance, and over-weening vanity, his affectation of pedantry, his many errors and misrepresentations, aroused against him a spirit which embittered the last years of his life.

First footsteps in East Africa 2003