Sentence examples for With great complacency from inspiring English sources

Thinking about his life as a puppet, "he said to himself with great complacency: 'How ridiculous I was when I was a puppet!

And how glad I am that I have become a well-behaved little boy!' " Here we know Collodi is laughing at his character: Pinocchio hasn't learned to be a well-behaved little boy — the fairy's told him so — and he's congratulating himself not with the resolution to be a better boy but with the "great complacency" of a job well done.

WHAT an economist, Ross Garnaut, has called "the Australian great complacency" may be coming to an end.

But it was actually the Great Complacency that Mr. Bernanke had put his finger on.

Surprisingly, given his challenges to the complacency of "high culture", he is at his best when engaging with great writers.

Certainly this is no time for complacency and demands for an expanded set of enforceable rights must be advanced with great care.

At an unusual recess hearing of his Energy and Environment Subcommittee, Markey said the report, issued with great fanfare by the administration earlier this month but now being challenged by independent scientists, may be lulling emergency responders and the public into complacency.

I am okay with mistakes or failures, but not with complacency or business as usual.

— Patrick Farrell Wine Spectator: Need to break that awful rut that comes with wine complacency?

And these are where we argue the real threats associated with continued complacency in the food economy come from.

With the same awe, mixed with a sublime complacency, he records the discovery of his own qualities and attainments.