Sentence examples for complacent character from inspiring English sources

Also troubling was the complacent character of historical novels themselves.

This may be because the Brits have a real handle on a real conundrum — which is, roughly, how to square the special and contrarian nature of artists with the bland and complacent character of a vastly expanded audience.

But this is one of those awkward films that depicts complacent characters while itself looking complacent, and Silva never quite seems in control of his volatile material.

When its disheveled characters are sent on exactingly prescribed quests, you can be sure these heroes will cut corners or otherwise fail to fulfill their missions; when prophecies are invoked, they generally don't come true; and any character complacent enough to believe he or she is some sort of Chosen One is all but guaranteed not to save the day.

It definitely makes it more exciting that you don't get complacent in the role that you're performing because you constantly have to think about what you're doing to transform into different characters for the different parts.

Weimar Germany was a sexually sophisticated era and Murnau, who was gay, subtly probes the erotic tensions of the characters and the complacent bourgeois community in which Orlok spreads contagion.

Monnier, obsessed with the pettiness and mediocrity of middle-class life, created the characters Monsieur and Madame Joseph Prudhomme as ideal representatives of the complacent French bourgeoisie.

Even minor characters surge with fascinating foibles: Mary's mother indulges in "complacent self deprecation", relating long anecdotes about herself, with feigned self-ridicule not quite masking her narcissism.

"It seemed right to add a touch of ingenuousness to the character because I didn't want her to come across as self-complacent or arrogant, which would have created some distance with the audience," Ms. Stoffel said.

Completely complacent".

But it became complacent.