Sentence examples for quiet complacency from inspiring English sources

Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery, expressed quiet complacency about the removal of 222 paintings from his museum to the home of Lord Lee at Avening in Gloucestershire in August 1939: "Lord Lee has made the most excellent arrangements for their safekeeping.

We should not rush into new legislation as a panicked response to the horror in Paris, but neither should we relapse into the complacency of the quiet times.

Still, they scarcely justify complacency.

He did not live a life of quiet desperation, but a life of verbal complacency.

Can the Chinese government afford complacency in the face of their quiet activism?

Exclusive reliance on quiet dialogue and cooperation becomes a charade designed more to appease critics of complacency than to secure change.

The motive force in most of these lives is complacency, the genial expectation that the young will succeed to the quiet privileges that their parents, in enjoying them, have preserved".

Mr Djukanovic's supporters believe they can win a 57% majority for independence; some sources add that the party is keeping this quiet because, with a tight battle ahead, it does not want to foster complacency.

The family's social life revolved around the church.A quiet conversionIt was never hard to see the influence of Methodism, born as a reaction to the complacency and privilege of 18th-century Anglicanism, on Mrs Thatcher.

Elite civilians encouraged complacency.

Probability, complacency, luck.