Sentence examples for complacent form from inspiring English sources

(Mr. Branch last week deemed the analogies the product of a passive electorate and cynical era in which "politics is reduced to a dangerously complacent form of entertainment").

This isn't a question of sinfulness so much as hubris, a dangerously complacent form of national solipsism that sees America as an exceptional nation, possessed of unique virtue.

La Chute reveals a preoccupation with Christian symbolism and contains an ironical and witty exposure of the more complacent forms of secular humanist morality.

Mr. Kahn concluded his paper by stating that a city's future depends upon emphasizing the positive as well as the negative, and he was followed to the lectern by Max Ways, a member of the board of editors of Fortune, who said that the general attitude toward the city had changed in his lifetime form complacent boosterism to masochistic despair.

But Simpson said it was important not to be complacent despite their impressive form.

Nora Ephron's latest film is a dose of stodgy comfort food in the form of a complacent, mediocre film, with an exasperatingly flaccid and anti-climactic ending designed to fudge the ­unfortunate fact that one of the two characters in the title actually hates the other – for reasons that are never explored, for fear of spoiling the bland feelgood ­flavour.

From the 1990s coalitions led by the PPP formed governments made increasingly complacent by unstinting support from Indo-Guyanese, the largest group of voters.The co-habitation of the past three years has been no more productive.

That seems complacent; indeed two weeks ago, investors were complacently assuming that Syriza's impact would be limited by the need to form a broad coalition.There is a broader issue about the rights of democracies.

He's also, on form, one of the sharpest, least complacent acts in arena comedy, and this autumn sees the culmination of his biggest tour yet.

However, Darren Topp, the BHS chief executive, said he is "confident but not complacent" that creditors will back the CVA, a form of insolvency procedure.

I've got to not get complacent and keep churning out runs when I'm in this form.