complacence

How To Use complacence In A Sentence

• Later, irritated by his self-satisfied complacence and after listening to a recital of how he had cornered the Klamath salmon – packing, planted the first oysters on the bay and established that lucrative monopoly, and of how, after exhausting litigation and a campaign of years he had captured the water front of Williamsport and thereby won to control of the Lumber Combine, she returned to the charge. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
• Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence. Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything
• You are not adjusting your life artistically; there is too much strain, too little warmth, too much self-complacence. The Kempton-Wace Letters
• The protagonist Gabriel changes from his primary complacence, to the later denial, and to the final real evaluation of himself.
• There are, in short, perfectionist reformers as well as religionists, who wait to see the salvation which it is the task of humanity itself to work out, and who look down from a region of ineffable self-complacence on their dusty and toiling brethren who are resolutely doing whatsoever their hands find to do for the removal of the evils around them. The Complete Works of Whittier
• Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence. Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything
• She wished she had put on another gown that afternoon, the rustling one of double tabinet that her Edinburgh friends considered too imposing for her years, but that she herself felt a singular complacence in no matter what her company might be. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
• In this case, however, community complacence hasn't really panned out for Valley Vista. Sam McPheeters: Trashing East L.A. County
• Our complacence over sexual abuse took a battering when Mira Nair's ‘Monsoon Wedding’ won the 2002 Venice Golden Lion.
• In her voice and complacence she, too, showed the drill-marks of order and restraint. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN