Sentence examples similar to granted complacency from inspiring English sources

The British still have a talent for taking success for granted until complacency proves their undoing.

"We don't take each other for granted, there's no complacency between us," he said.

Movies like this one are an antidote to the complacency -- the easily granted wish to see only what we have seen before -- that sets in during the winter pachyderm season.

First the Tories declined in Scotland; then Labour, who were apparently punished for their complacency – taking Scotland for granted.

Yet precisely because of the union's protracted existence, some SNP activists – including Salmond – sometimes take continued English complacency too much for granted.

In contemporary poetry such questions are readily to hand, but they are perhaps less often raised than taken for granted, commonplaces of postmodernity, with concomitant risks of complacency and sentimentality.

Parched lawns, made more visible by Governor Jerry Brown's vocal leadership on water conservation and climate change, shook voters from complacency; water can't be taken for granted.

He said he would be an "eternal warrior against complacency" and not take the next election for granted.

The final act of complacency came from Cameron, who took it for granted that a referendum on our membership of the European Union would produce a pro-remain vote so resounding that it would silence his critics on the Tory backbenches.

But while the international community has been ringing alarm bells, Africa has been accused of complacency and taking its abundance of natural wonders for granted.

I felt annoyed, annoyed they allowed complacency to set in as the public took for granted that an unqualified Trump would lose to a more seasoned Clinton.