Loftis (2005) challenges this relative complacency toward nonhumans and its contrast to the caution exhibited toward humans.
Three new books challenge that complacency, from three different directions.
Klee also began to challenge the complacency of German society in his own time.
I was by no means confident that the policing inspectorate would challenge the complacency of many in the top ranks of police forces England and Wales.
"It is right and essential that we give thanks for those who witness, who unlock the covers of the wells of compassion that can become available, who challenge the complacency in which some people suggest that we can live in our own country as though the rest of the world did not matter," he said.
As a man who pulled himself up by bootstraps, Varela shared Fortuyn's wish to challenge the complacency of mainstream Dutch parties to say out loud that too many immigrants and asylum seekers were pouring in and profiting from the welfare system - while contributing to insecurity.
'Challenging the complacency and prosperity of postwar America hadn't been Kerouac's intent when he wrote his novel,' his first biographer, Ann Charters, later wrote, 'but he had created a book that heralded a change of consciousness in the country.' In the few years following its publication, On the Road became a major bestseller.
Whatever comes will surely be something that challenges the complacency of the mainstream; something from disreputable sources; something critical of the status quo, harsh, simple, seemingly anti-musical, and doable without formal training — that is to say, something much in the vein of what Woody Guthrie did.
The only thing that's challenged this sense of complacency is the continued reports of people setting themselves on fire to show their discontent with the government, a la Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia.
