She had a complacent look now; the crisis was past.
Many markets have a tyrant - the complacent market leader milking the last vestiges of the status quo thereby slowing sector innovation and industry progress.
For two years, we've lived under a president who has brutally assaulted LGBTQ rights at every opportunity, after having seduced a complacent media into thinking that he'd evolved too and that he was actually "more accepting on gay issues," as The New York Times infamously put it.
The result has prompted soul-searching in the Labour party, including whether it had adopted a complacent attitude to minority ethnic voters and become too dependent on family elders to deliver votes for Labour.
But those who deem it sufficient to have a sound economic team look complacent.
My feeling is that companies that do well for long stretches of time have a tendency to become either complacent or arrogant, and both of those are bad paths.
Despite its strengths—hefty investment in research, a rigorous approach to manufacturing and good relations with its local community Kodak had become a complacent monopolist.
Critics said the leadership had adopted a complacent approach on the grounds that a strong Ukip performance would damage the Tories, thereby benefiting Labour.
