Sentence examples for complacency that from inspiring English sources
AIDS exploded a scientific complacency that seems inconceivably naïve today.
The surprise highlights the complacency that is the ruling elite's big weakness.
This is regrettable, because it is fostering a sense of complacency that can have dire consequences.
It led to a bubble of complacency that is now being popped rather brutally.
New York's cultural institutions will need to shake off the complacency that comes with age and respectability.
In Rocky III, also from 1982, the fighter is prone to the same complacency that had consumed his creator.
Pressure from Washington is needed to deny Israel the complacency that currently accompanies its prosperity; it is too tempting for Israelis to push tough choices into the future.
That has led to a complacency that helps explain a troubling increase in new H.I.V. infections among young men who have sex with men.
On Monday, some players described how the string of wins contributed to a sense of complacency that settled over the team.
"There has been a little bit of complacency that has set in after 9/11," Mr. Schumer said in a telephone interview.
The moral and managerial complacency that marked Andersen's behavior is an industrywide affliction, and it is this broader negligence that Congress must now address.
