Sentence examples for complacent has from inspiring English sources

"Anyone who has been complacent has finally gotten a wake-up call," said Sadad al-Husseini, former executive vice president for exploration and development at Saudi Aramco.

The lesson is that America has been self-absorbed and complacent, having grown fat and happy during years of bloated credit and illusory wealth.

The Italian conceded he had been complacent having watched his side's three-point lead at the top of the Premier League disappear following the 1-0 defeat at Goodison Park.

Mr. Westerberg, 42, is more contemplative now but no more complacent; he has just added another decade of wear.

When Frank criticizes the suburbs for being insufficiently daring, his complacent ranting has the feel of a performance, no more successful than April Wheeler's "The Petrified Forest".

Rather than growing complacent, he has gone on a quest to improve the already high quality of Angélus, even introducing certain methods from Bordeaux's archrival, Burgundy.

Its complacent government has cut the budget for prevention by nearly two-thirds, and infection rates and risky behavior are rising.

The complacent theory had always been that the august institution was "too big to fail".

There was a drivenness to them, something that the complacent Americans had initially mistaken for weakness.

Mr. Bloomberg, who clearly wants to jolt what he sees as a complacent system, had a different explanation.

Clerical sex-abuse scandals, and the church's complacent response, have also seen many Catholics in western Europe and North America turn away in disgust.