Sentence examples for our complacent from inspiring English sources
Closely examined, Muslim societies briskly dissolve our complacent, parochial notions about religion, democracy, secularism and capitalism.
How else to jolt us out of our complacent understanding of the world we think we know?
The story of Elizabethan drama's Kurt Cobain is shock treatment for our complacent times, Mr. Grimm suggested.
A driving factor behind the rise in gonorrhea infections, as well as the trend toward total antibiotic resistance, is our complacent attitude toward oral sex.
In its glass there are painful truths about ourselves, and about our complacent belief that foreign worlds out there have been mastered and simplified.
This surely must ring a few alarm bells, even among our complacent MPs who have allowed this tiny state-within-a-state to flourish over the past decade.
And when we won in a landslide, we sent a strong message to Albany: our famously complacent NY Senators could no longer consider it politically expedient to vote against our basic civil rights.
It's the fault, more generally, of our acquiescent, complacent, punitive and easily manipulated larger society.
Perhaps to properly grasp Ferrara's worth, we need to suspend our usual expectations of the medium – to take what Brad Stevens calls the "perceptual challenge" that the film-maker offers us, and entertain the possibility that the apparently chaotic fragmentation of storytelling and character is an intentional aesthetic choice, designed to deny us our usual complacent attitude.
Yet again, those of us on the frontlines of climate struggle, the indigenous land defenders, the people of color fighting police brutality, racism, and gentrification in toxic cities, the eco-warriors who put their lives on the line to defend forests, mountains, and swamps have been led astray by our own complacent "vanguard".
She wrote to her longtime friend Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell in April, 1896 to observe: "Our politicians are calm and complacent under our fire but the clergy jump round the moment you aim a pop gun at them 'like parched peas on a hot skillet'".
