She said she's now eating healthier. ( 1 CNN)Wendy Williams is not the woman she used to be -- and she's not going back. 2  The talk show host has shed 50 lbs and recently told E! that she's keeping the weight off.  3 I did it on my own and I love it because I no longer have to do that fight with clothing, Williams said.
illustration for John Milton's Paradise Lost by Gustave DorÃ© (1866).The spiritual descent of Lucifer into Satan is one of the most famous examples of hubris. Hubris (/ËhjuËbrÉªs/, also hybris, from ancient Greek á½Î²ÏÎ¹Ï) describes a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous over-confidence.
Hubris is an excess of confidence: a boxer who shouts I'm the greatest! even though he's about to get pummeled by a much stronger opponent is displaying a lot of hubris. Hubris is from Greek, where it meant excessive pride, violating the bounds set for humans and was always punished by the gods. We no longer have the Greek gods, so in English it just refers to over-the-top self-confidence. If you call yourself the best in something, you better have the goods to back it up, since too much hubris can lead to embarrassment and humiliation. It's an age-old human failing: pride goeth before the fall.