Sentence examples for complacent for a from inspiring English sources

The United Arab Emirates, best known for the freewheeling style of Dubai, has taken to rounding up and jailing critics of the government, a rare breed among the small but immensely wealthy minority of the country's residents who happen to be native citizens.The Gulf's rulers can perhaps afford to be complacent, for a time.

"We defeated a council leader who sat there, apparently impregnable and utterly complacent, for a decade and a half or more.

"Lots of times I lost my cool," he says now. "This individual is relative (sic) calm & somewhat complacent for an inmate with so much time.

The euphoria lasted for days and left them drained and, to their cost, a trifle complacent for their next game, against Austria.

In 2009, music journalist Erik Hage wrote that Tupelo Honey "has become one of Morrison's most likeable albums, but the very elements that make it appealing to many the homey feeling, the personal odes to married life also make it a complacent album for an artist who had been pushing forward and challenging boundaries for the past few years".

Ultimately the same could be said of the staging, whose close adherence to the letter of the text points up the fact that Britten's satire on English village life is a touch too complacent for its own good.

Tracing Emerson's famous twistings and turnings, Mr. Poirier argued that even when he seemed most complacent, for instance in his notorious observation, "Do not tell me, as a good man did today, of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations.

But it is also making the banks far too complacent for their own good.The driving force behind all this has been an unusually benign economic climate.

But it cannot afford to be complacent, for three reasons.

Russians were far too complacent for far too long, and for that I am sorry.

That may soon come to look complacent, for crowdfunding has reached the scale it needs to finance much larger transactions.