Sentence examples for of complaisance from inspiring English sources

"They received us with a great deal of complaisance," Washington observes, the French offering flattering pleasantries about the difficult trek Washington's party had endured over the mountains.

Such an attitude is gov erned by the spirit of Munich, the spirit of complaisance and concession, and by the cowardly, self‐deception of com fortable societies and people who have lost the will to live a life of deprive tion, sacrifice and firmness.

This is the sort of humanistic complaisance that made many viewers consider "Borat" an unfair satire of the uneducated (plenty of doctrinaire rightists have a good education and a sophisticated style).

With the exception of Japan and Australia, which categorically called for complaisance by both parties, few countries fully stood by the Philippines' side.

With the exception of Japan and Australia, which categorically called for complaisance by both parties, few countries fully stood by the Philippines' side.

A sense of Rivera's potential, as a good-will ambassador at large, explains the complaisance of Rockefellers and Fords, who must reasonably have expected that he could be bought.

There are many reasons for the relative complaisance of fans who chant "red army" as they ascend the steps to the Emirates Stadium.

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— Cyril Béghin 9. Radical Chic "When the intention of the auteur becomes too visible or is spelled out too clearly, the effect is hollowed out in favor of a system of seduction or an off-putting complaisance".

In all this he appeared to act more like an aggressive papal nuncio than a compliant appointee of the royal supreme governor of the church, and Charles I's purring complaisance in Laud's activities was unendurable to most of his subjects.

The republican principle demands, that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they entrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breese of passion, or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.