Sentence examples for with a complacent from inspiring English sources

With a complacent smile, he produces "M-A-Y-S".

I greeted these men in Arabic, and they responded in unison with a complacent look.

I wasn't sure I liked how that natty tin man was looking at me, with a complacent air of knowing something I'll never know.

Sauerbrey ends this ten-minute propaganda film with a complacent lie: "We feel such a strong moral obligation and commitment to help these Iraqis that did help us".

And on the standards agenda there has been a parallel retreat on rigour, as Ed has preferred to side with a complacent bureaucracy rather than concerned parents.

As I removed it from the cupboard, it eluded my grasp, bounced on the kitchen floor, hung in the air as if deciding what to do next and then landed upside down with a complacent plop.

Mr President, the violation of human rights in Peru is another case in the long list of cases occurring in Latin American countries with the connivance of a complacent United States.

This comes through in his portraits of Howard, played (superbly) by Mr. Pine with a maddeningly complacent charm, and Judy, whom Ms. Eisenberg (an acclaimed fiction writer) plays as a familiar New York type, the well-born Manhattanite who writes long-gestating, elegant essays about political corruption or horrific crimes.

It starts with a man complacent in his own lonely life until he is saddled with a mentally-challenged ward.

"Here Comes Geordie" tweaks a complacent millionaire with an itch to save the planet (Sting, anyone?).

Female detectives tend to bring instability into a story because they are always on the margins, having to negotiate in a man's world and refreshing a complacent genre with a new self-awareness.