| In wisely sidestepping the hubristic folly of trying to sum up his own time, he achieved a sort of timelessness. |
| The administration's hubristic foreign policy has been efficiently exposed as based on nothing more than hallucination. |
| He was seduced into politics and fell victim to the hubristic notion that he, and he alone, could once again be France's saviour. |
| It would be hubristic for any critic to think he is absolutely right and the mainstream record-buying public are absolutely wrong. |
| The likelihood of suffering tragedy increases with a hubristic belief that we have everything under control. |
| In its war on the press, this hubristic administration may finally have crossed a bridge too far. |
