Sentence examples for as complaisance from inspiring English sources

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

More generally, it will become reasonable to cultivate a sociable character, or "complaisance" (which is not explicitly identified as a passion, but seems a plausible candidate).

There are many reasons for the relative complaisance of fans who chant "red army" as they ascend the steps to the Emirates Stadium.

A sense of Rivera's potential, as a good-will ambassador at large, explains the complaisance of Rockefellers and Fords, who must reasonably have expected that he could be bought.

Thirty of the seats are filled from within "functional constituencies", such as business groups and trade unions, a system bound to produce complaisance.

One day they may come to rue their complaisance.

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

Many fear that without German complaisance, the E.U. will stutter to a stop.

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

It's part of Yee's precocity to realize that a population molded into sheeplike complaisance is ideologically vulnerable.

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