Overweening

A film critic for the Los Angeles Times wrote that "Cameron's overweening pride has come close to capsizing this project" and that the film was "a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances".

Away with all that is overweening; let the state of Roman majesty withdraw.

Groves also detected in Oppenheimer something that many others did not, an "overweening ambition" that Groves reckoned would supply the drive necessary to push the project to a successful conclusion.

He regarded this precept as "the most false and dangerous of all political errors".sfn States could constitutionally take action to free themselves from an overweening government, but slaves as individuals or interest groups could not do so.

Tolkien's "Gnomes" are generally tall, beautiful, dark-haired, light-skinned, immortal, and typically wise but suffer from pride, tend towards violence, and have an overweening love of the works of their own hands, particularly gemstones.