Sentence examples for complacent view from inspiring English sources

Modern Britain is ensnared by a complacent view of the past.

Some protest that the scale of graft has been exaggerated.Yet after the 2G scandal that is surely a complacent view.

The Pentagon's complacent view of its own performance is in part a product of the extreme modesty of its goals.

Insiders took the complacent view that American house prices could never fall at the national level, and that Mr Paulson was making a dumb bet.

"Poetry and the State" seemed to hold a complacent view of poetry as an inherently ethical or comforting medium that brings people together.

Across the Atlantic, that right is under grave threat and it would be a mistake to take a complacent view that it could never happen here.

'Imagine,' wrote Virginia Woolf, 'an ordinary mind on an ordinary day.' McEwan does exactly that in Saturday as we follow Perowne closely, more in thought than in action, and discover how his once-complacent world view has been altered irrevocably by the new political realities of our age of terrorism and scarcity wars.

Again, starkly different from Caitlin's complacent fossil fuelled view.

Had Bashir miscalculated, complacent in the view that the ICC was toothless?

A mechanism that purports to make that stream more accurate — even though a corrections button would not fully prevent bad information from spreading — would lull us toward a more complacent, less critical view of that stream.

BMW's current interior design is either classic or complacent, depending on your view.