Example sentences for: hubris

How can you use “hubris” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Economists are as guilty of this hubris as are members of any discipline: There's the Fischer Effect, the Sharpe Ratio, the Miller-Modigliani Theorem, Tobin's Q, the Laffer Curve (the only one in which the name helps characterize the discovery), and the greatest of them all, Pareto Optimality.

  • Who better to strip away the hubris and slippery moralizing of both sides in this case than the man who really can distill consumer harm down to a decimal point?

  • We risk hubris, given our lackluster national cuisine--not that I'm knocking high-fat, high-calorie, high-profit, bland stuff served up on a bun and eaten in a car--if we mock the food of another country.

  • You probably remember that American Media was purchased in May for $300 million by a New York investment firm headed by former Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, so maybe you aren't surprised by this hubris.

  • Jobs' hubris was not that he wanted to own the personal computer business, but that he wanted to sell a product that was better than anything the industry could put together piecemeal.


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