Sentence examples for sort of complacent from inspiring English sources

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.

While politicians – and bishops – pontificate about the nobility of dedicated parenthood, there needs to be more understanding of the reasons why this sort of complacent idealisation isn't helpful.

But our reverence for the good lawyer and the enshrinement of "To Kill a Mockingbird" as the conscience of America have required the same sort of complacent historical vision that allows the Confederate flag to fly atop state buildings.

So, the next time someone says that D.S.K.'s acts were kept out of circulation from a sort of complacent French conspiracy to guard the reputation of a public man — or from a sort of garcons-will-be-garcons indifference — keep in mind that while there are unspoken agreements to protect public people's privacy in France, they're backed up by the law, and taken seriously.

He could be argued as typifying the very sort of complacent incumbent who'd be wholly indictable under the populist-imbued criteria that toppled Cantor.

"The old council, which we sort of swept away, was complacent, paternalistic and patronising," he says.

But they gave a new significance to a key moment in An Inspector Calls, when the Inspector – who has already been dismissed as "a socialist or some sort of crank" – addresses the complacent Birlings, warning them that there are many people like the dead girl, "all intertwined with our lives … We don't live alone.

I am a complacent sort of person, one who takes things as they come.

Then, having won the campaign for leave, he seemed three days later to be preparing the ground for a complacent dash back towards a sort-of remain.

But in an e-mail exchange yesterday, Mixter, like other self-appointed monitors of computer security, defended his actions as a sort of call to arms for complacent network administrators.

Because the Labour's leader's initial observation, that the 2008 financial crisis was an indictment of a complacent elite, against which some sort of public backlash was likely, was correct.