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Перевод: hubris

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Тезаурус:

1. This was hubris, pure and simple
2. Despite the Tories' achievements in the 1980s of trade union reform, privatisation and disciplined public finances, serious economic mistakes had been made since 1987, and there had been "fatal signs of hubris", most notably the poll tax disaster.
3. The accusation of hubris in Hollywood is harder to deny.
4. There is a relentless derision of Mr Kinnock among some young apparatchiks and if that reflects voices higher up it adds to the sense that, like bad generals, the Tories may be underestimating the enemy, as dangerous to them as hubris for Labour.
5. There can be nothing but hubris in a position that substitutes one moral absolutism for another while pretending to offer humility.
6. The Ancient Greeks had a word, "hubris", to refer to any human action that over-reached itself - of the kind that the Greeks regarded as an offence against the gods.
7. The Aswan Dam is modern hubris.
8. Another of this weekend's conventional theses, which was anticipated here, was that of Kinnockian hubris - the possibility that voters went off Mr Kinnock for carrying on as if he had already won.
9. Surely it is not the scientists who are guilty of hubris here but their accusers, in implying that humans could play God.
10. New-sightedness, the timeless standpoint, "hitherto unknown reality" - these have an air of mystical hubris when dragged into the open, but they are what Dostoevsky is really talking about.
11. The idea that the rest of creation is here for our benefit makes no sense biologically, but the idea is so widespread in society and so deeply ingrained in our approach to life, that it gives rise to an arrogant and destructive "hubris".
12. Now hubris has been succeeded by nemesis.
13. As is now clear, it was this totally unnecessary act of hubris that more than anything else frightened the voters away.