In a story as old as the Greeks, overweening pride brought condign disaster.
-- David Frum, How We Got Here
She was warring with her children, having pushed them away with her overweening possessiveness.
-- James Fox, Five Sisters
Overweening personal ambition is no virtue; but while I had it, I could have danced on a bed of nails.
-- Joyce Maynard, At Home in the World
