Sentence examples for generally complacent from inspiring English sources

Even generally complacent capitalists such as Greenspan find themselves on the defensive on this issue".

Stephen Kenny, an Australian lawyer who also represents Mr. Hicks, said in an interview today that the Australian government had been generally complacent about raising objections with Washington.

The back-and-forth had people in both parties nervously eyeing the financial markets, fretful that the political fighting would unnerve investors; to date, Wall Street has been generally complacent, believing that the White House and Congress ultimately will come to an agreement, if only because failing to do so would hold such economic peril.

And that so-called churn rate has dwindled in recent years, as customers have grown generally happier, or complacent, with their cell services.

Although John Lennon would later take considerable risks (and write some lousy songs) in the service of his political convictions, rock stars were generally seen as complacent poseurs who did no more than pay lip-service to radical ideas.

It's the fault, more generally, of our acquiescent, complacent, punitive and easily manipulated larger society.

Ewan is accepting of his dad, ready for love and generally just a little complacent or sad, nothing more.

Yet those of us fortunate enough to live in a part of the world not generally threatened by them can become complacent.

Americans also tend to be concerned about the performance of the nation's schools as a whole, but generally satisfied with, and therefore maybe complacent about, the performance of their own local schools.

Generally, he presented an air of calm, neither complacent nor over-excited.

Flanders's story is told from the complacent perspective of a woman who has achieved wealth and security, and generally adopts the matter-of-fact tone of a case history.