"It seemed right to add a touch of ingenuousness to the character because I didn't want her to come across as self-complacent or arrogant, which would have created some distance with the audience," Ms. Stoffel said.
Malloy is a tall, portly, well-dressed, important-looking man of fifty-five or so with the serene, self-complacent countenance of one who has achieved success in his chosen line — by his own unaided endeavors, he believes.
Abolitionist Samuel Joseph May accused Lowell of trying to quit the movement because of his association with Harvard and the Boston Brahmin culture: "Having got into the smooth, dignified, self-complacent, and change-hating society of the college and its Boston circles, Lowell has gone over to the world, and to 'respectability'".
AT the end of this road was the worst kind of mindless, self-indulgent, complacent schlock.
The international friends who supported them, they need to snap out of this self-congratulatory complacent attitude".
In Watermelon Sugar (1968) is about life in iDEATH, a self-sufficient, complacent commune that is surrounded by "the Forgotten Works," the obsolete remnants of a destroyed civilization.
From self-satisfied, complacent Christianity toward a suprachristian spirit of radical welcome, inclusion, and grace.
Even minor characters surge with fascinating foibles: Mary's mother indulges in "complacent self deprecation", relating long anecdotes about herself, with feigned self-ridicule not quite masking her narcissism.
Brentford are another antidote to what football has become at the highest level: complacent, self-serving and distanced from reality.
It's the sort of complacent, self-indulgent behaviour displayed by Adele over the last four years – during which she produced no music for her millions of adoring fans.
For type-A high achievers, music lessons leave no room for complacent self-congratulation. Adult amateurs get a paradoxically opposite benefit: a reminder to "enjoy the process".
