Why is it hubristic for humans to put themselves on another planet?

But his Olympic tower seemed a hubristic step too high.

In its war on the press, this hubristic administration may finally have crossed a bridge too far.

A venture is usually described as hubristic only when it fails.

Others called some of its provisions misguided, hubristic or downright mean.

His novels attempt to look encyclopedic, since choosing any one fact over another seems hubristic.

Some Israeli analysts criticized that conclusion as premature, if not hubristic.

I'm convinced most plans are doomed, hubristic notions just waiting to unravel.

Moreover, he writes, "these economic arguments allow the hubristic, violent way we treat the earth to continue."

You are so damned hubristic about everything.

They grow hubristic, and he knows it.

In particular, their handling of the Iraq War showed their hubristic tendencies.

Or perhaps most damaging of all, its hubristic belief that any product bearing the Xerox brand could sell itself.

And I hope not too hubristic.

Thus has the hubristic Brooklyn Museum plunged the city into a lose-lose battle.

The ambition of this piece, which lasts a mere 90 minutes but seems infinitely longer and shorter than that, is hubristic.

Philippus wasn't at all happy, confided to me that the young fool is becoming hubristic."

It seems to me that it is hubristic to believe that you know what the grandchildren of all Americans want many years in the future.

Clare Short: 'I was surprised by how messianic and hubristic it is right from the start.

In consequence of this "tragic crime" and his hubristic arrogance as king, Tarquinius was eventually removed.

The adjectival form of the noun hubris is "hubristic".

If one takes art as seriously as the faith healer does, as a matter of life and death, that itself is hubristic.

However, it might also reflect the commission's desire to play down its acquiescence to the nuclear industry's hubristic view that the plants are nearly invulnerable.

When I watched 2001 again a few months ago, what I loved about it was the insane hubristic ambition.

He's a hubristic visionary, a mix of Icarus and Faust.