Sentence examples for in a complacent from inspiring English sources

Perhaps they came to Twickenham in a complacent mood.

And if he is right, then investors are acting in a complacent fashion.

The rapid rise of the Kindle caught the Big Six in a complacent coma of their own making.

"For too long English football had drifted along in a complacent daze," Sir Bobby Robson, the current coach of Newcastle United, told uefa.com.

Afterwards all accountability was lost, in a complacent helpless country medicated by the sweet syrup of cable television and air conditioning.

A sitting Buddha from the same era looms over the town's main street, its damaged face set in a complacent smirk; the original monastery around it was destroyed by American bombings.

But it serves an important job - in keeping the BBC on its toes, in preventing it sliding into a complacent mediocrity.

I've worked in catering all my life... I've only worked in the brewing industry since 2007 and I have never worked in such a complacent, arrogant industry".

I greeted these men in Arabic, and they responded in unison with a complacent look.

It reflects young artists' interest in all kinds of realistic styles — as well as reality itself — yet seems pulled down by a complacent, in-crowd hermeticism and a weird emotional deadness.

THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR In 1960s Paris, a complacent bourgeois (Fabrice Luchini) discovers an unknown world on the sixth floor of his apartment building, living quarters to a group of women, all refugees from Franco's Spain, who work as maids.