Word: overreaching
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Felker's personal grandeur may match his managerial overreach. Since last spring he has asked for: 1) a 25% increase in his 1975 salary of $120,461. 2) the wherewithal to buy a house in Long Island's ducal Hamptons, and 3) company purchase of his super-duplex. His directors, in New York parlance, cut him off at the bottom line...
...Victorians, as Chesterton observed, were "lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." It was an epoch of elegance and kitsch, dignity and pornography, liberal cant and imperial overreach. It is this instability that enlivens-and afflicts-Brian Moore's novel, The Great Victorian Collection...
Unfortunately, instead of addressing such points, the authors depart on flights of exaggeration that turn Global Reach into an overreach. Breathlessly capitalizing nouns, they assert that multinationals are run by World Managers who aim to create a Global Shopping Center or One Great Market. That Global
...despite this overreach, a rather messy structure, and great length...
...disease, often contagious, occasionally fatal. Only the very young confuse it with pleasure. A mild attack of love can drive Lessing women to pray: "O God, make me old soon." It is almost as if love were Mrs. Lessing's version of hubris-a case of overreach for which those who would be like gods must be punished. And, in fact, whether these 17 reprinted tales (first collected in 1957) take place in Mrs. Lessing's own southern Africa or London or Paris, the settings are harsh and foreboding enough for Greek tragedy...