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hubris
1. He knew he should never have tended the horse while it was still in its stall, but whether out of hubris or carelessness, he was there
2. plagued with deep hubris
3. She’d never allowed herself the hubris of imagining his approval
4. turning benevolent at last, they’d chosen to punish her hubris by snatching away the daughter whom she would have loved so well
5. The Classical Greeks would have been astounded by this display of hubris
6. How else describe the arrogance, hubris, and downright lust for power a la the second Messiah that infests the Obamas and their senior minions in the ant hill (or is it termite mound) that has remade our nation"s capital? Recall that in the mid 1960"s J
7. It was hubris that had led to his predicament
8. His last moments in this place, led here by a disillusioned belief; hubris
9. Full of the hubris of youth, unaccustomed to the honour of driving the inspector, or sitting in and taking full notes of the interviews, Leduc was seemingly irrepressible
10. It might have been a hubris, but perhaps he was after all God’s chosen champion
11. A potentially explosive mix, as most agreed, even in the hubris generated by all this new technology
12. The hubris called humanity
13. Such policies, Manzi finds, “conceal hubris in a cloak of humility
14. So the hubris of the people and experts inflated,
15. However, the Administrators ignored a crucial historical lesson, as you have already mentioned, comrade: that of hubris
16. without hubris, it denies the solitude of a safe flight
17. The wind of the moment lashes between the sheets, without hubris, it denies the solitude of a
18. truths will never happen (call that hubris or dickheadness), but, of
19. Hubris peered into the box
20. Gaspar closed the box, put it under his arm, and followed Hubris back to the repository’s entrance
21. Gaspar started to walk back, but Hubris stopped him
22. Hubris returned with water and cloths, and nothing more was said until they had finished washing
23. “First things first,” said Hubris, “so let’s start with your true name
24. “I’m Hubris,” said the spellbroker stiffly, “and this is Gaspar
25. “Well, perhaps not quite everything,” said Hubris carefully
26. “But you came away empty-handed?” pointed out Hubris
27. By the same means, Hubris had discovered that the Chief-Moneylender’s secretary went by the name of Reave
28. ‘Keep your enemies in front of you’ was a well known adage in Rubas Derad, and made more sense than some others, such as ‘Old trout make the best pies’, which appeared to make no sense at all, even to Hubris
29. Hubris had seen no sign of the fellow Gaspar had identified as Pyx, the Chief-Merchant’s secretary, and had assumed that he would show up only at the appointed time
30. “You should have warned me that Stoat was behind me,” he said accusingly, as Hubris joined him in the street
31. “And hire the same two assassins?” added Hubris
32. Hubris threw up his arms and feigned surprise, though this was, in fact, exactly what he had expected
33. The longer they took to work out their options, the more likely it was that that they would realise that their quarrel lay not with Hubris, but with Reave, their erstwhile employer, and that an unsanctioned murder without payment was a poor business model
34. Lately, on account of the vast sums being spent on magical artefacts and the risk of thievery, the milliners had been compelled to join together on the one site and implement extra security, so that when Gaspar and Hubris arrived at the end of the lane in front of the workshops they found their way barred by a new iron gate, lit by the flames of a burning brazier and manned by a hired ruffian wielding a nasty cudgel
35. Gaspar and Hubris were still uncertain as to exactly what was going on, but, whatever it was, they felt they had been played for fools
36. Gaspar and Hubris stood back to avoid being run down, and watched as the first two wagons drove by
37. Hubris, however, was quick to intervene
38. “How did this happen?” demanded Hubris
39. Gaspar and Hubris returned disconsolately through the night-beset city streets, still clutching their bundles under their cloaks
40. “We couldn’t take the risk they would be recognised,” said Hubris
41. Hubris, too, was deep in thought, and was just about to express his concerns aloud, when Gaspar abruptly deviated from the usual route and turned down a side alley
42. “What now?” asked Hubris, though he was beginning to suspect he knew the answer already
43. “Have you not then wondered why she broke into Wizards Hall? If it was not to acquire an artefact for the milliners, why was she there?” Hubris kept his voice low to avoid being overheard
44. “We had guessed something of the sort,” commented Hubris
45. “Ah, it’s beginning to make more sense now,” said Hubris
46. She must have thought she was running away with Reave!” surmised Hubris
47. Also, Hubris never met Pyx
48. Add to this the intense hubris of the
49. They would follow, of course, because of their hubris
50. message was a mixture of idealism and hubris
