overweening

What seemed to be an overweening statement was not without merit.

Just for a moment it seemed that the voice had lost its overweening self-confidence.

Once again Congress had struck back against an overweening executive branch.

He will be defeated, in the end, brought down by his own overweening ambition.

There's an overweening confidence, as I've told you, in our own ability to look after ourselves.

But it is not just an overweening sense of animals' rights that gives pause.

They heard that he was honest and had no overweening opinion of his own abilities.

Loyalty is the overweening attribute in the play, and the most difficult to maintain.

Still, the viewer is conscious mainly of their overweening size.

At base there is an enormous arrogance and an overweening ambition.

"It was your overweening pride that led you into failure.

And which of two such overweening creatures would prevail was a matter for serious speculation.

Gone was the forced ebullience, the overweening desire to please.

"I have this overweening interest in humanity," she says in the film.

Sometimes, but not often enough, Summers kept his overweening intellect and ego in check.

"I wrong," he said, no small admission from one of the overweening plainsmen.

They say his motivation, at root, springs from an overweening sense of entitlement.

Was not his overweening pride leading him toward insanity?

I silently thanked these men for not bowing to her own "overweening pride."

Will anyone be prepared to carry the argument to its logical conclusion and make the most powerful possible case against the overweening state?

It demonstrates an overweening arrogance of a type seldom seen."

Once again, about himself (sometimes referred to as moi) the overweening modesty.

Only while she was in prison did her son, free at last from her overweening control, seem to have a reasonably normal life.

It was not that they disdained the overweening beauty of the Manhattan skyline.

Likewise you would not suspect him of a literary ambition more overweening than anyone's since Faulkner.