Sentence examples for complacence from inspiring English sources

The corridors of the Palace of Justice itself are paced by an image of Eros — a dog, marbled in black and white, its jowls quivering, its haunches swaying in time to the slow and steady pulse of its infatuation as it follows its master, a Viennese interpreter, who carries off the situation with the gay complacence of a Schnitzler hero.

This is variable emotional geography, on the fringes of an exceptionally prosperous place, fertile soil for either complacence or resentment.

Nabokov's uxorious complacence reaches its low point in the spring of 1937, the "darkest and most painful" year of the marriage, as Boyd puts it.

Yet Watts also sensed precisely where Cameron's weakness lay: in complacence.

One never knows what form of radical protest against bourgeois complacence Raf Simons's interesting work will take.

Complacence is a natural human instinct.

Watching her parents and their friends, Emily is acutely attuned to what she decides is their complacence and passivity: "Adults, I was learning, were not a people of dramatic gestures.

Other countries are also trying to create a cadre of rural health care professionals, and the nongovernment sector has often stepped in when the state has shown reluctance or complacence.

Complacence about rising home prices in the 2000s similarly reflected the view that prices are inherently rational.

Still, Colonel Neshat seemed temporarily jolted from the complacence that has plagued his men.

But I wonder if that streak of complacence in an otherwise conscientious nature doesn't explain Cameron's mysterious buoyancy.