For most of that time, he sat opposite Gus Bevona, a union leader whose imperial hubris - he lived in a lavish penthouse with marble bathrooms atop the union headquarters - made him one of the most prickly and unpredictable negotiators in the city.

American élites' blinding "imperial hubris" (term also used in 'Through Our Enemies' Eyes' 2001) endangers U.S. safety (163-168).

Ceramics analysis in Syro-Palestinian archaeology has suffered from insularity and conservatism, due to the legacy of what J.P Dessel and Alexander H. Joffe call "the imperial hubris of pan-optic 'Biblical Archaeology.'"

He knows that the Athenians voted to put Socrates to death and that their imperial hubris led to the self-destructive Peloponnesian War.

IT'S tempting to sniff out contemporary analogies in any recent work of historical fiction touching on empire at war - to detect a sneaking critique of imperial hubris in, say, Brad Pitt's preening Achilles.

But as Mr. Herbert observes, all the phony macho theatrics at Madison Square Garden can't obscure the fact that once again American imperial hubris has led us to disaster.

Currently he is exploring the theory of imperial hubris and has written an article, Imperial Hubris: The dark heart of leadership, soon to appear in, among other places, the Journal of School Leadership.

The review in American Conservative compared this book with Rudyard Kipling's poems "Recessional" and "The White Man's Burden", both written at the height of British power and warning against imperial hubris.

When companies plan wildly ambitious, over-the-top headquarters, it is sometimes a sign of imperial hubris.

"The Persians" is the earliest surviving play in Western literature: an elegy for a fallen civilization and a warning to Greece, lest it, too, be overtaken by imperial hubris.