Sentence examples for quiet complacent from inspiring English sources

'But what have you got?' he asks this quiet, complacent WASP.

This is a far cry from the late 1990's when steadily rising stock prices kept many investors in a quiet, complacent mood, even when confronted with questionable practices.

Here, that is replaced by the need to keep people quiet or complacent.

"That group, however, doesn't represent the broader cross section of people who are good and honest but perhaps too naïve, perhaps too quiet, too complacent in looking at racism".

Thus, the manner in which the Arab schools and the higher echelons of the public school system are staffed plays an essential role in marginalising potential Palestinian community leaders and movements, while rewarding those who are quiet and complacent, and who can in a sense make themselves into 'present absentees' (Al-Haj 1995; Swirski 1999).

Haruf's story accumulates resonance through carefully chosen details; the novel is quiet but never complacent.

On my mother's side of the family, the women are kind of complacent and quiet, and a woman's education is not that prioritized.

It was St. John's first trip to the hills of southwest Virginia and Coach Mike Jarvis worried that his young, urban team might become complacent in this quiet country.

"You can't take them being calm and quiet and allow yourself to get complacent or to think, 'They're not going to hurt me because they haven't hurt me in the last few weeks,' " said Capt.

We have had some quieter nights but we are not complacent about that.

Speaking during a visit to Enfield, north London, Ms May said: "We have had some quieter nights but we are not complacent about that.