Sentence examples for a more complacent from inspiring English sources

The response, she remembers, was a curt: "leave it to the professionals".That retort now seems not just daft but a relic of a more complacent, richer era.

A mechanism that purports to make that stream more accurate — even though a corrections button would not fully prevent bad information from spreading — would lull us toward a more complacent, less critical view of that stream.

In the same way that students rated poorly in TOSBA were given a 'wake-up call', some of the students who had performed satisfactorily at TOSBA may have adopted a more complacent approach – an unintended and undesirable consequence.

But the victories of the civil rights movement also made everyone a little more complacent — and as the years passed, the nation slipped into a delusional and dangerous state of "colorblindness".

But unlike Kyrgyzstan, where poverty and frustration over the country's meager economy played a critical role in motivating protesters, Kazakhstan has oil and gas revenues that support a broader, more complacent middle class.

This is typical of the strategy used in dealing with squatters: offering a ten or twenty year amnesty period, after which the original occupants have moved on, passing the torch to a younger, more complacent generation, who are easily steam-rolled in the name of progress. .

"People became a little bit more complacent – they thought it was taken care of.

One would have supposed that Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, in view of her own experience, would have been a better and more complacent mother, since the young woman was in all ways worthy and the match desirable from every standpoint.

A lower VIX corresponds to investors being more complacent about the equity markets, and a higher VIX means investors are more uncertain about the markets direction.

It also conveys a message to peripheral countries that have been getting more complacent on the back of ECB support, a signal that hardliners within Europe have been keen to send.

La Chute reveals a preoccupation with Christian symbolism and contains an ironical and witty exposure of the more complacent forms of secular humanist morality.