“The film also links the Waterfront with a range of unattractive personnel that includes an overweening boss, a philandering businessman, a self-important conductor, and a pretentious artist.”

“Ambition, of course, is often just as prevalent in the overweening narcissist as it is in the more high-minded journalist.”

“He had, at one time, entertained an almost overweening admiration of the preaching and character of Mr. James Haldane.”