Sentence examples for complacent expectation from inspiring English sources

"USADA's overly expansive view of its own authority — not to mention its smug self-regard — undoubtedly explains its threadbare charging document, its arrogant and craven refusal to disclose evidence, and its complacent expectation that the Review Board will not hold it accountable," Luskin wrote, asking the review board to drop the case.

Perhaps above all, we need to wean ourselves off our complacent expectation – an expectation not shared by our grandparents or even our parents – that all types of fruit and vegetable, and indeed meat and fish, should be available to us all year round.

For some in Britain and the US, it has been a great year: in this version of events the will of the people, in the form of votes for Brexit and Donald Trump, has smashed triumphantly through the complacent expectations and blinkered preoccupations of a political elite.

Students who exceed their expectations become complacent, ignoring their instructors and focusing their energy on securing the highest letter grade rather than developing mastery over course concepts.

Yet others may have become complacent with the low expectations the voting public had of their government services.

No novelist worth his salt would assume he deserved to be read without grabbing the reader by the throat, yet our poets are so often complacent, too comfortable in the expectation that someone will read them, even if only assigned to do so in a classroom.

Thus if Romney beats those expectations, or a complacent Obama stumbles, it could turn into a genuine opportunity for the Republican to claw back Obama's lead.

Younger people in most countries tend to be more dissatisfied than their elders, and then as they get older, their values and expectations change, and they become more complacent.

Support: The design policies, for which Denmark became a role model and beacon for the rest of Europe and several Asian countries, seem to have been replaced by an expectation of self regulation and other, seemingly more complacent agendas.

"People can't be complacent as we still don't really know when the first rate rise will come - expectations ebb and flow," he adds.

Completely complacent".