Sentence examples for self-complacency from inspiring English sources

Each of these earlier books ends on a note of triumphal self-complacency.

"Argentines were bitten by the disturbing bug of self-complacency," said Mariano Grondona a columnist for the daily La Nación, who has written of two books about the cultural prerequisites of development.

In 1784, under the pseudonym Constantia, she published a few essays in a Boston magazine, the Gentleman and Lady's Town and Country Magazine, beginning with "Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms".

But in enjoying a certain level of "enlightenment," he falls back into the "egoism" of self-complacency, compassionless apathy towards fellow beings, and the narrow vision of other-worldliness.

Its self-complacency, however, infuriated some of his contemporaries, notably Pope, but even the usually critical Samuel Johnson had to admit that it was "very entertaining and very well done".

Therefore, some bias due to self-complacency can not be ruled out.

To justify his methods, Fletcher tells Andrew that the worst thing you can tell a young artist is "Good job," because self-satisfaction and complacency are the enemies of artistic progress.

And worse yet, we may generate a sense of self-satisfaction and complacency about achieving a major victory while we have only chipped off the tip of the iceberg.

But there is a danger of self-satisfaction turning to complacency and, ultimately, hubris.

The operation's code name — "Olympic Games" — suggests some of the complacency and self-satisfaction among the President's advisers.

In a letter to Daniel Bell in 1946, Macdonald attacks what he perceived as "a streak of careerism" and "complacency and self-satisfaction".