Sentence examples for * complaisance from inspiring English sources

One day they may come to rue their complaisance.

They had demonstrated wit, complaisance, empathy, tact, and timing.

Their complaisance was unquestionably due to Clergue's power in Montaillou.

Many fear that without German complaisance, the E.U. will stutter to a stop.

It's part of Yee's precocity to realize that a population molded into sheeplike complaisance is ideologically vulnerable.

In real life, it might conceivably have prompted her complaisance, even if forgiveness had remained beyond her reach.

Thirty of the seats are filled from within "functional constituencies", such as business groups and trade unions, a system bound to produce complaisance.

The basic skills brought to the table were expected to include politesse (sincere good manners), esprit (wit), galanterie (gallantry), complaisance (obligingness), enjouement (cheerfulness) and flatterie.

Encouraging greater complaisance about their sorry stock of savings probably does them no service.However, the article's examples of current consumption may actually be retirement savings.

The latter sentence comprised a reference to the habit of consuming seeds as snacks, in which he saw evidence of rudimentary behavior: "Here [that is, outside Transylvania], one doesn't have rights, but complaisances.

However, in this case the criticism could be levelled that any difference in attractiveness is due to a bias against any form of anti-social behaviour or non-complaisance, rather than a bias towards 'altruism' or helping.