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hubris
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Cutting for Stone
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To work for him, for his patients, to be his skilled assistant, was sufficient ambition, and it was an ambition without hubris, and God willing, it was something she could reasonably do.†
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My hubris was to think I understood America from such movies.†
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But the real hubris I could see now was America's and it was hubris of scale.†
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But the real hubris I could see now was America's and it was hubris of scale.†
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Hubris was my taxi's speedometer, wider than the steering wheel, as if Dali had grabbed the round gauge and pulled its ears.†
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Hubris was the needle now showing seventy miles per hour, or well over one hundred and ten kilometers per hour, a speed unimaginable in our faithful Volkswagen—even if we'd found a suitable road.†
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The fact that both men were shy and unassuming seemed almost deceitful given the ambition, the hubris, that had allowed them to risk Shiva's life for mine.†
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Definitions:

(1) (hubris)
excessive pride, arrogance, or confidence

Hubris is especially used to indicate that one will suffer for ignoring convention.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)