Sentence examples for in the complacent from inspiring English sources

When they speak to outsiders, it is in the complacent tone of the Chamber of Commerce.

He admitted that "to my shame I was in the complacent camp..

In the complacent and self-obsessed 1990's, her urge to help the poor and downtrodden is seen as quaint and ingenuous.

Many of the enemies of "Happiness" accused it of expressing a smug superiority to its unhappy characters, a view shared by many of the film's admirers, who enjoyed the film sealed in the complacent illusion that they were nothing like the grotesque suburban souls depicted on the screen.

But Friday started to show a chink in the complacent armor, with the equities-only call/put ratio coming in at 84, the lowest reading for any expiration Friday in the past two years.

There is a colloquy between the Lord of the Yellow River and the God of the Eastern Ocean, in which the complacent self-satisfaction of the lesser spirit is shaken by his unexpected meeting with inconceivable vastness.

But as Tyler Cowen discusses in his book, The Complacent Class, more information can also segregate us, as it enables us to constantly surround ourselves with familiar foods and faces.

In fact, it is the complacent formula for myriad defeats in local, state and federal elections in 2018 – a formula that we Democrats have perfected.

In 1990, Mercedes was the complacent benchmark, Jaguar was in steep decline and Audi was a blip on the radar.

In his new book, The Complacent Class, he writes about the forces that prevent change from happening.

"The whole of British politics has been shaken up in a way that the complacent Westminster class could never even have contemplated," he said.