overweening

The single-actor format and clever use of camerawork give visual expression to the novel’s themes of overweening egotism and existential dread.

I have long sided unreservedly with Truman on the issue — not so much on principle, I must admit, as because of MacArthur’s overweening, self-aggrandizing arrogance.

It’s as if their mother’s overweening nature couldn’t be defeated; it could only be eclipsed.

Still, the overweening arrogance in the face of all these blunders is baffling.

Just as the hubris of headstrong shipbuilders who insisted that the Titanic was unsinkable led to an unparalleled maritime disaster, so Cameron’s overweening pride has come unnecessarily close to capsizing this project.