Sentence examples for With the complacency of from inspiring English sources
Cannily portrayed by Ms. Parsons with the implicit smugness of a lone survivor, she reels off genealogies with the complacency of a teacher's pet reciting memorized poetry.
But the frustration of this government agency, perhaps doing its best in difficult circumstances, contrasted with the complacency of the Audit Commission in a later report.
He told the French bluntly that they could not afford their high-tax, high-security, low-growth, low-employment model indefinitely, and promised a "rupture" with the complacency of the past.
Put that together with the complacency of the macroeconomists and there were too few voices shouting stop.Blindsided and dividedThe charge that most economists failed to see the crisis coming also has merit.
Clegg said the Lib Dem budget plan contrasted with "the complacency of the Conservatives", who havd made unfunded spending commitments, and the "economic illiteracy" of the Labour party, which he said had made vague commitments to balance the books.
Accordingly, the narrator — who is at once friend, attorney, warden, guardian, and guardian angel of the vulnerable, almost broken hero — sets out his case from a certain ironic distance, even perhaps, as he notes on one occasion, with the complacency of a critic.
His work resists the complacency of canonization, blazing with qualities that are the opposite of classical: precocity, obscurity, and verbal recklessness.
He emerged on a scene dominated by the Vienna Actionists, who assaulted the complacency of their countrymen with determinedly horrific, sadomasochistic performances.
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.
The result was a rash of clever, soulless buildings "imbued with the dull complacency of wealth", in Robin Middleton's phrase.
She must have done herself in, they surmise with the chilling complacency of youth.
