Sentence examples for complacent reader from inspiring English sources

Yet, with Harari's move from mostly prehistoric cultural history to modern cultural history, even the most complacent reader becomes uneasy encountering historical and empirical claims so coarse, bizarre, or tendentious.

(The in-group readers do, and grouse all the way to the author's next big advance). Yet, with Harari's move from mostly prehistoric cultural history to modern cultural history, even the most complacent reader becomes uneasy encountering historical and empirical claims so coarse, bizarre, or tendentious.

What if we find ourselves with Presidents Trump and Le Pen in 2017 (plus Putin), an FT columnist warned his complacent readers this week.

But Dickens was having a go at his complacent readers - he was chastising them about their own ignorance - an ignorance that was in many cases a wilful ignoring of the plight of their fellow Londoners.

But Dickens was having a go at his complacent readers - he was chastising them about their own ignorance - an ignorance that was in many cases a wilful ignoring of the plight of their fellow Londoners" as Chris Priestley so eloquently notes in Ignorance and Want: why Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol is as relevant today as ever.

We provided a lot of insight to our readers to not be complacent about the general election outcome, whereas I think that wasn't true for a lot of places.

Their output came to form a distinct genre of writing – what I call the "Trump Country" piece – that saturated news cycles and fatigued readers with stories of complacent white woe and toxic politics.

Aping the forms of philosophical thought in tones of complacent condescension, he provides for his readers the comforting sensation of reading something profound at little cost of mental effort.

Mantel said the awards were not making her complacent: "I'm always greedy for readers, like every author.

The smart writing registers no objection to what struck this reader as a kind of complacent essentialism.

Whether we're readers or writers, none of us can afford to get complacent.