Modifies a noun

• ambition: The Greeks would call this hubris - righteous revenge from the gods for overweening ambition.

• power: It was the individual's ultimate protection against the overweening power of the state.

• pride: Indeed, our overweening pride in our culture gives the lie to any claims we might make to theological modesty.

• sense: Blair's overweening sense of ethical duty compensated for the absence of public support.

• arrogance: A mixture of extreme shyness and overweening arrogance, he is an erratic and unforthcoming conversationalist.

• conceit: Myself, I don't think that New Labor's problem has been overweening conceit, but rather the reverse.