"There was this overweening pride," he said.

Chapman's Byron, a formidable soldier and commander, is marred by one major fault, his overweening pride.

Was not his overweening pride leading him toward insanity?

Although they came from the lowest rungs of Roman society, they were nonetheless filled with an overweening pride.

He had seen the man's skill as a naval officer, his overweening pride, his love of country.

Blow everything up,' he said, 'just because you're a man of too much overweening pride and you can't stand the idea that you've failed someone.

The ancient Greeks had used it, for the overweening pride of a man who sought to rival the gods.

My violent demise, when it comes, will doubtless be attributable to my own overweening pride.

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

It was your overweening pride that led you into failure.