Sentence examples for a certain complacent from inspiring English sources
Plus, and this is true not just for Belgium, a certain complacent mindset that believes "it can't happen here" has further complicated the picture.
Lexington was the 10th top district in the state, and the fact that a few hundred African American students who came in from Boston weren't doing well was viewed with a certain amount of complacent fatalism, he said.
But the snazzy surface of "Vacationland" could not adequately distract from a certain hollowness in her rather complacent, easy portrayals of these stereotypical figures.
Apart from a certain shared apprehension of immortality — complacent in one case, but endearingly gingerly in the other — the skinny 28-year-old on the cover of Patti Smith's seismic 1975 album, "Horses," doesn't look much at all like Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein.
"The Punjab government is not only complacent, there is a certain ambivalence in their attitude" towards extremists, says Arif Nizami, a political analyst based in Lahore.
Through the album, Mr. Chesney steers the songs toward half-smiles or at least a certain resigned acceptance, but he still sounds less complacent than ever.
And it's true to a certain extent that those in my neighborhood, and others, we have become complacent to the gun violence surrounding us.
"Roger isn't an evil banker, he's a slightly complacent banker," says Jones. "He's become used to a certain way of life and has a self-imposed pressure to live that way.
