Sentence examples for for complacent from inspiring English sources

His style, too easily taken for complacent, is recuperative.

And in the bargain, an object lesson for complacent, name-brand-mad decorators.

But Dubai World's recent decision to delay payment on its debt has brought the crisis to reality for complacent bondholders.

For type-A high achievers, music lessons leave no room for complacent self-congratulation. Adult amateurs get a paradoxically opposite benefit: a reminder to "enjoy the process".

By Akash Kapur Not long ago, utopianism was a mark of naïveté or extremism; now pragmatists are denigrated for complacent cynicism.

But in an e-mail exchange yesterday, Mixter, like other self-appointed monitors of computer security, defended his actions as a sort of call to arms for complacent network administrators.

And now this feels like punishment — my punishment for being complacent, unguarded, for leaving the hospital early.

But Mr Aquino is under fire for seeming complacent, somewhat unfeeling and for trying to pass the buck.

There is potential for the novelist to stumble as well, by opting for a complacent patronizing of her hapless couple or a mean-spirited evisceration of their limitations.

Health experts blamed Uganda's government for becoming complacent since winning international acclaim, and reams of financial aid, for its AIDS efforts.

Whatever the family thinks they are, most of the audience will happily categorise them as rednecks, that term being a necessary licence for the complacent sense of superiority which is the series' chief attraction for its fans.