How To Use Complacence In A Sentence
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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
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Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence.
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You are not adjusting your life artistically; there is too much strain, too little warmth, too much self-complacence.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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The protagonist Gabriel changes from his primary complacence, to the later denial, and to the final real evaluation of himself.
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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
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Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence.
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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
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In this case, however, community complacence hasn't really panned out for Valley Vista.
Sam McPheeters: Trashing East L.A. County
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Our complacence over sexual abuse took a battering when Mira Nair's ‘Monsoon Wedding’ won the 2002 Venice Golden Lion.
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In her voice and complacence she, too, showed the drill-marks of order and restraint.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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Our spirit: to seek truth with constant self-improvement, to spread culture of well-being and dare to realize our dreams but without self- complacence .
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Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence.
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If we're doing well, our over-confidence can devolve into complacence, thinking that our future will continue on the same trajectory as our past.
Ron Ashkenas: When the Invincible Become "Vincible"
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Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence.
Chapter 43
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When Tom's companions drank to the Hans en Kelderr, or Jack in the low cellar, he could not help displaying an extraordinary complacence of countenance.
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Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence.
Chapter 43
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Mostly, we act with simple complacence in the midst of the cruelties to women's gender.
Jake Diliberto: International Woman's Day: From Then to Now Who Is the 21st Century American Woman?
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Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence.
Chapter 43
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I say in complacence to him, because she always exprest the greatest contempt for dress, and for those ladies who made it their study.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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Jones clearly felt that certain teams -- such as the Bengals, Bills, and Jaguars -- were not sufficiently aggressive in pursuing local revenues and that their complacence should not be rewarded with equal shares of national revenues.
Andrew Brandt: Teal Transfer
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The deep pessimism which infects the classic Cold War novel gives way to a complacence born of the hero's capacity to survive.
