Seemingly, no one tried to stop him from this overweening naive course of action.
This is the drama of a flawed and self-destructive hero, a protagonist of great achievements and overweening presumption.
Despite the technocrats' overweening presence, Estrada has vowed to become a hands-on leader.
Most Italians point instead to the overweening power of the baroni (barons), or tenured professors with the power of academic life and death.
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They launch overweening projects fuelled by the perception of unchallengeable power.
Second, the galleries of portraits reveal the extraordinary tentacle of the Habsburg family and the overweening preoccupation with dynastic succession and the demands of strategic alliances.
The plan to find alternatives to an overweening state in the provision of public services made sense only if profitmaking firms were fully part of the mix.
Congress has seen other periods of overweening executive power (when Alexander Hamilton was treasury secretary, and when Richard Nixon was president) and vicious partisanship (in the 1890s and 1900s).
The peevish put-downs, overweening sense of entitlement and volcanic temper tantrums could all hit uncomfortably close to home if Ferrell and Reilly didn't appreciate the ridiculous side of adolescent angst.
Packed with anecdote and detail, it is a thoughtful, strongly felt study of what he believes are France's ills: a melancholy list that includes social division, widespread corruption, falling school standards and an overweening state.
As the title suggests, the themes of this work of fiction are the old ones: the vanity of human striving, divine punishment for overweening confidence in our technological achievement, the futility of human effort in a world ruled by indifferent nature.
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