Sentence examples for of the complacent from inspiring English sources

Its simple finger-pointing at the egoism and materialism of the complacent bourgeoisie seems reductive.

I think there's several different layers of the complacent class in this country.

The very fact that he was so effortlessly part of the complacent ruling elite was his best cover.

In 1922 Lewis published Babbitt, a study of the complacent American whose individuality has been sucked out of him by Rotary clubs, business ideals, and general conformity.

Monnier, obsessed with the pettiness and mediocrity of middle-class life, created the characters Monsieur and Madame Joseph Prudhomme as ideal representatives of the complacent French bourgeoisie.

He also saw the Nazi threat far ahead of the complacent British establishment, and his extraordinary leadership may have been the decisive factor in vanquishing Hitlerism from Europe.

Certainly nothing can change by resting on the complacent laurels of short-term success.

But it has neither the debt stock of Greece, the bust banks of Ireland or the complacent government of Portugal".

In many ways, we are reminded of the transition from the complacent physics of the 19th Century to the turbulent modern physics after Einstein's 1905 scientific revolution.

But this essay has a nice way of tripping up the complacent reader.

Spain, whose culture smells of American consumerism, has settled into the complacent flesh of Sancho Panza.