Sentence examples for * complaisance in from inspiring English sources

In all this he appeared to act more like an aggressive papal nuncio than a compliant appointee of the royal supreme governor of the church, and Charles I's purring complaisance in Laud's activities was unendurable to most of his subjects.

There is also genuine dismay that their leader's complaisance has resulted in many legitimate questions what sort of post-Saddam Iraq is envisaged, for instance going unasked.By contrast, Mr Bush has far greater room for domestic political manoeuvre.

Moreover, his alleged complaisance over British involvement in and protection of Iraq and Transjordan, both of which the Ikhwān thought ripe for conquest, created tension with his military supporters.

It is implicit in a memoir that shuns complaisance -- even while it draws evocative sketches of Capri and of the other "monsters," literary or otherwise who stayed there.

She also defines love in a Lockean manner as "complaisance".

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

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

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— Cyril Béghin 9. Radical Chic "When the intention of the auteur becomes too visible or is spelled out too clearly, the effect is hollowed out in favor of a system of seduction or an off-putting complaisance".

One day they may come to rue their complaisance.

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