The only morally consistent alternatives nowadays are radical self-effacing commitment to opposition, or full-on complaisance.
"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.
He is acid in his comments on the complaisance in the wartime British Foreign Office over Stalin's designs on Eastern Europe.
Nehring takes on our complaisance, our received ideas, our sloppy assumptions about our most important connections, and for that she deserves our admiration.
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.
He laid the blame on a certain complaisance at the firm that stemmed from relying too much on ratings agencies: "You know when you say the word mortgage, and then you hear it's rated AAA by the various agencies, that makes you feel very secure.
She also defines love in a Lockean manner as "complaisance".
Yet there are times when civility bends toward complaisance, when impertinence is part of the necessary truth.
One day they may come to rue their complaisance.
