Sentence examples for with complacent from inspiring English sources

This is useful for hungry opposition members competing with complacent governments.

He charged the American people not merely with complacent inattention, but with woeful ignorance.

Let us not, even in this week of scheduled revelry, be tempted to fulfill our poetry needs with complacent verse.

But Sand, who foraged tirelessly for pleasure and companionship, and wrote with complacent fluency, misunderstood the tonic nature of Flaubert's despair.

"Our first teachers of philosophy are our feet, our hands, and our eyes". Emile was a battle cry for educational reform from a man who made a career out of clashing with complacent society.

Now, of course, there is plenty to criticise – the BBC can be arrogant, hard to work with, complacent, needlessly expansionist and insensitive to the plight of their colleagues in the commercial sector.

We are not dealing here with a sick or failing or unsuccessful industry but with a complacent one".

With the coming of the Great Depression, most of the country followed, with several complacent business-focused Republican presidencies.

England were also charged with being complacent.

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.