It's easy to get complacent coming from the UK, where everyone knows about your references, but how much do you know about theirs?
Despite all the complacent claims from ministers about the economy, these figures show that for ordinary people life is getting harder under David Cameron's government," she said.
These opinions didn't necessarily reflect a general consensus: indeed, their progenitors were responding to what they viewed as soggy and complacent responses from others.
Their words are thoughtful, well meaning and maddeningly abstract, and the film shares their aloof, morally complacent detachment from the complexities of real politics.
In a 1999 Republican debate George W. Bush, then a candidate, responded — to the accompaniment of complacent guffaws from liberals — to a question about which political philosopher he most identified with: "Christ, because he changed my heart," Bush said.
The diplomacy Corbyn has in mind is an ideological and complacent show from the sidelines, partly because he is not in power, but mostly because it is disconnected from how deals are reached in the real world.
The founder effect is a reminder that immigrant populations tend to be unrepresentative subsets, differing somewhat (longer legs on average, maybe, or stronger wings, or a larger sampling of venturesome peasants than complacent landowners) from their source population.
In bringing terms like "bimbo eruptions" and "situational ethics" into the Oval Office, in sparking the sort of jokes once directed at the likes of Joey Buttafuoco and the Bobbitts, Mr. Clinton helped turn the attention of a complacent country from issues and policy and focus it, more insistently than ever, on the spectacle of character, as this year's presidential campaign so clearly attested.
The appointment of Carver has only made matters worse and now smacks of a complacent choice from a complacent club - a club that thought it could make do and mend until the summer safe from any threat of relegation.
