Sentence examples for increasingly complacent from inspiring English sources

But Hope quickly returned to his comfort zone, turning out increasingly complacent comedies of marriage and mild sexual temptation.

With a few noteworthy exceptions, the European cinema is becoming increasingly complacent, a living museum of cultural values and national pride.

The outline portrays the fatal Columbia mission as the tip of an iceberg of problems that include communications breakdowns and an increasingly complacent attitude toward warning signs.

From the 1990s coalitions led by the PPP formed governments made increasingly complacent by unstinting support from Indo-Guyanese, the largest group of voters.The co-habitation of the past three years has been no more productive.

But I believe Yates is asking us to look at the incremental process through which the Wheelers betrayed their youthful dreams and arrived at their predicament — first the marriage, then the kids, then the job, and then the house in the suburbs….Youthful idealism ends not with a bang, but through a series of increasingly complacent whimpers.

In the 19th century they were an instrument of nation-building and patriotism, and critics say they have evolved in the postwar period into increasingly complacent entities that routinely leave a large host of taboo subjects -- from the imperial family to corruption in sumo -- untouched.

It is important that the spirit of rainbow nation is extracted from the ennui of an increasingly jaded and complacent African National Congress, which, as with so many post-liberation ruling parties, is in danger of losing its moral compass.

"I see an insular people who are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent, and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing out place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined," Morris said.

Yet, while Walmsley has refused to get complacent about what appears an increasingly likely participation in the play-offs, he also has one eye on the teams above the Saints.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for the powerful and the complacent to sustain a culture of silence.

And while he kept up his campaign to calm an increasingly jittery nation, he also cautioned those who might be complacent that this strain of flu was not like any other.