How To Use Complacency In A Sentence

I remember that as we said good-by there was that in her smile that recalled the vulpine complacency of Mona Lisa, the Wise. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
Because short-term indicators have not shown a precipitous decline in the economy since the referendum, a complacency seems to have set in. Times, Sunday Times
Alan had taken his démarche with a certain kindly complacency. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Conservatism and caution can become complacency and quietism, even though they don't start that way.
To dismiss the cause of integration, even through complacency, is to condemn the abject to the continuance of the system. Racebending and Integration

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It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo. Jill the Reckless
It was a gesture meant to signal that the era of complacency was over. Times, Sunday Times
But probably God's foreknowledge of His own people means His "peculiar, gracious, complacency in them," while His "predestinating" or Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
There are still eight games left so we must avoid complacency at all costs. The Sun
Just as it's right that we avoid smug complacency, so we shouldn't tumble into despondency and despair.
The market's latest surge and its propensity to reverse every attempt at an intraday selloff show how investors have become more daring, raising the risk of a near-term stumble as complacency grows. The Economic Times
Architectural awareness erases a person's complacency about buildings.
Despite having achieved so much, there is still no complacency in the ranks.
The only possible way I could have seen England coming unstuck would have been if they had allowed complacency to creep in. The Sun
The reasons for doctors under-reporting adverse drug reactions include fear of litigation, diffidence, and complacency, and pharmacists are likely to hampered by similar constraints.
It's really only been in recent months that people have been tightening their belts by a notch or two and, to my mind, there's little room for complacency yet.
But there are conservatives, who, while acknowledging the successes of quantum mechanical methods, caution against complacency.
There may be far too much institutional complacency but there is no reason for despair.
Debt is now so ubiquitous that it breeds a certain complacency. Times, Sunday Times
One the things we hear from patients is that GPs may show a complacency towards asthma. The Sun
Multi-ethnic, multicultural Brazilians, addicted to tolerance but most of the time drenched in complacency, preferred to believe -- and joke about -- the eternal promise of "the country of the future" (as novelist Stefan Zweig coined it over 70 years ago). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
Technical incompetence may be part of the explanation but inertia and complacency are clearly factors too. Times, Sunday Times
Complacency on the part of the home owner is the most disturbing factor in domestic security.
It is an urgent call to remain steadfast despite suffering, to repent of complacency and compromise, to move from lukewarmness and the middle of the road to heated commitment, and from disillusionment and despair to confidence and hope.
This does not imply any cause for complacency. Times, Sunday Times
And, moreover, as our best doings are only very pitiful shortcomings, worth little or nothing, it is just as good for us that the consciousness of our unprofitableness should be kept constantly before us, instead of the serene self-complacency of doing wonders, over which we should fall asleep, certainly neither in blessedness nor the odour of sanctity! Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
That belief is balanced by a need to avoid complacency. Times, Sunday Times
‘Stability’ is a fancy term to dignify laziness and complacency as sophistication.
To be "poor in spirit" is the opposite of Laodiceanism, which consists of self-complacency and self-sufficiency, imagining I am "rich, and in need of nothing. Reformation Theology
Complacency could easily result in tragedy.
Irish directors are the root of the problem, he says: an expletive-laden diatribe against their complacency and unoriginality demonstrates the depth of his feeling on the subject.
It was designed to warn us against complacency but also to anticipate a great future for the country and humanity.
Indeed Fifa, an organisation that brings new definition to the term complacency, has already turned a blind eye to the incident, dismissing Ahern's impassioned intervention as if it were material for a comedy sketch, a ludicrous idea. The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics
The reason stems from complacency, particularly among the mutual life companies in Scotland which haven't been run as meritocracies and have effectively been old boys' clubs.
His virtues, as well as the vices of Elagabalus, contracted a tincture of weakness and effeminacy from the soft climate of Syria, of which he was a native; though he blushed at his foreign origin, and listened with a vain complacency to the flattering genealogists, who derived his race from the ancient stock of Roman nobility. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This dangerous complacency can't go on. Times, Sunday Times
One thing that heightens the risks is complacency. Times, Sunday Times
That belief is balanced by a need to avoid complacency. Times, Sunday Times
ROBINSON: Well, in my own career, one of the things that I learned early on was the greatest killer on the battlefield is what we call complacency, you know, the thinking that bad things is what happen to other people. CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2004
I made my toilet by the mirror of a quiet pool; and as I was so doing, and smiling with some complacency to see myself restored to my own image, the mountains rang with a scream of far more than human piercingness; and while I still stood astonished, there sprang up and swiftly increased a storm of the most awful and earth-rending sounds. The Dynamiter
What annoys me about these girls is their complacency - they seem to have no desire to expand their horizons.
Not for the seal behind Calvin, not even for the man himself... just for the indifference, the complacency! THE LAST RAVEN
This experience should serve others as a warning against complacency.
Have his imperious manner, refusal to answer questions and gratuitous insults to critics betrayed a complacency that upsets voters? Times, Sunday Times
What annoys me about these girls is their complacency - they seem to have no desire to expand their horizons.
I remember that as we said good-bye, there was that in her smile that recalled the vulpine complacency of Mona Lisa, the THE HUSSY
Often using obscene, offensive and profane language she succeeds in shocking the reader out of the middle-class complacency that numbs the senses of the public.
It is a picture of arrogance and complacency. Times, Sunday Times
They continue to show dangerous complacency in the face of the worst economic disaster of our lives. The Sun
Your opinion of my complacency and being delusional is your suggestion or is it another runoff the mill copout that you have no suggestion accept to say something for the sake of saying nothing. Page 3
We are not about arrogance, or complacency. Times, Sunday Times
No WAG can afford to take her place in the side for granted or allow complacency to set in. Times, Sunday Times
For long passages it was hard to suppress stirrings of physical nausea at the complacency of the establishment and the power it wielded. Times, Sunday Times
She paused a moment, before she emerged from the shade, to gaze upon the happy group before her — on the complacency and ease of healthy age, depictured on the countenance of La Voisin; the maternal tenderness of Agnes, as she looked upon her children, and the innocency of infantine pleasures, reflected in their smiles. The Mysteries of Udolpho
I'm still marveling at the juxtaposition of these two words: "armchair", connoting casual comfort and complacency, and "terrorist" with its inherently brutal malevolency. Undefined
Comfort can easily lead to complacency, and for a band rooted in punk's Riot Grrrl movement, there's no greater sin than phoning it in.
One lapse in concentration, one moment of complacency, can ruin a career. Times, Sunday Times
The people have been lulled and gulled into complacency.
Getting more women into executive positions is the next big challenge for business, and there is absolutely no room for complacency. Times, Sunday Times
Conceit and complacency are the archenemy of unity.
Be modest in learning , for complacency is the enemy of study.
Yet amid the betrayal and back-stabbing, the cruelty and crime, the play ultimately has a happy, almost spiritual, finale, shaking the audience out of its 21st century complacency to ask: has anything really changed?
He had an odd complacency and crooked smile for the creakiness of fate which had returned him here.
Isn't that worth stirring from our complacency for?
Admittedly, England has suffered more on a drip-fed basis, but we long ago gave up the complacency of being unbreachable.
It seems to be intrinsic to domestic politics of every variety that a certain dismal downward trend emerges, characterized by sloth, despondency and complacency.
For most of us, hopefully, the outlook is better, but that should not be a cause for complacency.
But his complacency comes to an end when he bumps into his childhood piano teacher, who encourages him to audition for him.
We hope the Yorkshire Bank-sponsored grants of up to £1,000 per school will spur people on to continue what we have started - because there is no room for complacency.
He was an odd mixture of awkwardness and complacency, a desire to be courteous struggling with a desire to show his independence; he had no ease of manner, no bonhomie, but a gruff and ugly kind of jocosity, which I am sure was not really natural to him, but was his protest against the possibility of my considering him to be shy. The Silent Isle
But this comfortable culture can lead to a deep complacency. Times, Sunday Times
One finds the same complacency, the same condescendingness, in a far higher degree in the essays of Mr. A.C. Benson. The Art of Letters
Contemporary dance is constantly called upon to protest its relevance against accusations of complacency and pretentiousness.
But Roger felt far otherwise; and this sudden qualm of conscience once quelled (I will say there seemed much of palliation in the matter), a kind of inebriate feeling of delight filled his mind, and Steady Acton plodded on to the meadow yonder, half a mile a-head, in a species of delirious complacency. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
This smacks of dangerous complacency and incompetence. The Sun
We lived," said Baxter, "in inviolated love and mutual complacency, sensible of the benefit of mutual help, nearly nineteen years. Character
Complacency has never infected Smith, who has made the most of the abilities he possesses by ‘keeping his head down and getting on with it’, whatever the brouhahas going on around him.
These, however, were evidently not the most prized portion of Mr. Polymathers's library, though he displayed them with some complacency, reading out here and there a sonorous "furrin" phrase, at which his audience said, "More power," and "Your sowl to glory," and the like. Strangers at Lisconnel
Yet there is no place in a modern global economy for complacency. Times, Sunday Times
Sometimes science requires stirrers to shift the dead weight of unthinking complacency.
When complacency crops up, people do not hesitate to talk out.
His statement betrays complacency to the point of disingenuity. Times, Sunday Times
It was not intended as a path to complacency or self-satisfaction, but to questions and action.
Not that there's cause for complacency. Times, Sunday Times
The harrowing scenes of grief at the funerals of the young victims were a dreadful reminder of the complacency that placed safety in second place to budgeting for so long.
She didn't even hear Jackson call something out to her, or see him shrug his shoulders in unoffended complacency to her non-response.
The reasons for doctors under-reporting adverse drug reactions include fear of litigation, diffidence, and complacency, and pharmacists are likely to hampered by similar constraints.
Such formal liberties were intended to jolt the viewer out of complacency into a fresh social outlook.
I had already checked in online- but one of the problems with checking in online, is that it induces a sense of complacency- I found myself dashing to get to the airport on time, having dilly-dallied on a number of issues. A snatched chance to blog, terror and current reading
But local authority associations, professional bodies and voluntary groups must not become scapegoats for government complacency and inaction.
This experience should serve others as a warning against complacency.
Setbacks can be a good thing, forcing you out of your complacency.
In short, the best explanation for our lost prosperity is that the mindset was one of complacency and we are now paying the price. Times, Sunday Times
Be alert for complacency, overconfidence, or a lack of communication.
Underlying causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster include complacency and "routinism" the tendency of those within a large organization to avoid testing established policies. Marine Log News
The US will not be lulled into complacency
I shunned the face of man; all sound of joy or complacency was torture to me; solitude was my only consolation — deep, dark, deathlike solitude. Chapter 9
He described in glowing terms the blackguardism of the would-be bigamist, sitting there in smug complacency by the side of his already one too many wife. My beloved South,
The sparrow, like all street singers, sounds his scrannel note with raucous complacency; but it does not matter here, for no one is critical or talks of Art. Once, on a July morning, I ran through the cornflower-blue shadows of the path to a grove of young fir-trees, and was present at a breakfast party given by the willow warblers. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
Can I disclaim the stereotype of Americans as living without the resonance of history, inhabiting the present with a childlike complacency, an unwitting, unreflecting arrogance?
In short, the best explanation for our lost prosperity is that the mindset was one of complacency and we are now paying the price. Times, Sunday Times
This acts as an excellent safeguard against complacency without the gloom and doom which tends to accompany mistakes.
We stand where we were - fear, complacency and self pity consuming us.
But in the original double album, and in the Who's live performances of the work, they created a musical earthquake that opened cracks in the complacency of a shabby-genteel culture. From The Who To The Whom
As people with the smallest amount of stability, we're lulled into a false complacency.
This dangerous complacency is just not good enough. Times, Sunday Times
Complacency on the part of the home owner is the most disturbing factor in domestic security.
With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globe, confident of our empire over this world.
After I have done all I can do, after I have been covered in water from hosing and smell of neem oil, after I have scrubbed the tanglefoot off my hands, after the DE has had a few days to do it's nasty work, and after enough time has passed to lull any remaining aphids into complacency, than, and only then, do I call in the Special Ops Unit. Operation Garden Storm
It is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to ad just to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries. Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech
So some dangerous complacency is creeping in. Times, Sunday Times
Overly bullish sentiment or complacency is regarded as bearish by contrarians.
Since when do we have to put up with complacency, rudeness, laziness and neglect of duty?
These are quirky books, written by a quirky writer for quirky readers; they offer an astringent tonic in a time when narration, across genres and media, falls as often as not into saccharine complacency.
One lapse in concentration, one moment of complacency, can ruin a career. Times, Sunday Times
Many of us were frustrated by what seemed like the complacency of older gays, just as they had once been frustrated by the meekness of an even earlier generation of homophiles.
One lapse in concentration, one moment of complacency, can ruin a career. Times, Sunday Times
I would like to see less complacency over crime levels in the area and less smugness on the local environment.
In the true self-critical spirit of the United States (remember that from before election 2000?), she was exercising what she termed skeptical patriotism, as contrasted, for instance, with complacency with the way things are and unquestioning trust in the authorities in charge. The Skeptical Patriot
Yet there was always an element of complacency about an administration which enjoyed a substantial parliamentary majority.
How long must innocent people continue to pay the price for our indifference and complacency?
However, there is no time for complacency as the frosts will eventually reach these areas and kill off anything that isn't hardy.
Or is it a symbol of a dangerous complacency that could undermine political stability itself? World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
Not only do the new arrivals improve the strength of the squad, they lessen the chance of signed us complacency in others. Times, Sunday Times
How happy, how busy, how bright they were as they measured and altered, and Harry, in boundless complacency, went up and down at her orders, and changed and altered and arranged, till her fastidious eye was satisfied, and every fold hung aright! Oldtown Folks
What annoys me about these girls is their complacency - they seem to have no desire to expand their horizons.
In the less rebellious 1980s and 1990s, these themes of repression and rebellion gave way to an emphasis on the complacency, conservatism, and loyalism that reigned in supposedly unprivileged as well as propertied society.
One the things we hear from patients is that GPs may show a complacency towards asthma. The Sun
Well, he needn't make that call again because no-one in the Labour Party is showing the least sign of complacency.
We should realize that maybe the emergence of UPS will arouse us from a state of complacency and readies us for the grim challenges lying ahead.
They represent gentle scoldings of the modern sensibility; they remind us of our unparalleled capacity for complacency and myopia.
Its production is a story of incompetence, complacency and cynicism. Times, Sunday Times
Another profession, the medical, has just been criticised for arrogance, paternalism and complacency.
Alan had taken his démarche with a certain kindly complacency. DARE CALL IT TREASON
They despise complacency and inertia. Times, Sunday Times
With eight games remaining and only two away, the team's destiny is in their own hands but they must learn from this experience and not let complacency rule the day.
But this is not a cause for complacency. Times, Sunday Times
After this interchange of greeting, the steed began to his provender with an eager dispatch, which showed old military habits; and the master, after looking on the animal with great complacency for about five minutes, said, — “Much good may it do your honest heart, Gustavus; — now must I go and lay in provant myself for the campaign.” A Legend of Montrose
Lancaster's first – and possibly last – Six Nations squad may not necessarily terrify the French, the Welsh, the Irish or the Scots but opponents would be correct to sense that the days of English complacency are over. Stuart Lancaster has reinvigorated England's Six Nations outlook
The word of God is then like to be done, when there is so dear a love to it; and the soul so taketh complacency in it, and unites to it, that it becomes as it were consubstantiate with the soul itself. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
Yet amid the betrayal and back-stabbing, the cruelty and crime, the play ultimately has a happy, almost spiritual, finale, shaking the audience out of its 21st century complacency to ask: has anything really changed?
It is also the result of our own complacency and lukewarmness. Rev. Emily C. Heath: Mainline Christianity's PR Problem
I do not wish to convey a sense of complacency.
But there are no grounds for complacency, and there is justified fear for the future.
#23 RG–This might indeed be a case of necrotized complacency, but I think there’s a case to be made that a conscience can be revived. Firedoglake » Sierra Club: Yes, Still Wanker of the Day
His desire to avoid complacency is commendable, but he should give himself and his players more credit. Times, Sunday Times
A kind of lofty complacency was one of them. A Plague of Angels
But this resignation is a form of complacency that we simply cannot afford. Canada after February 18, 1980
The team manager has been quick to clamp down on the merest hint of complacency.
Be modest in learning , for complacency is the enemy of study.
Fire may be part of the nation's identity, but complacency and greed fan the flames
his complacency was absolutely disgusting
Oriented north toward the small town of Limbo, he meticulously fights off the slow drift to complacency within his platoon.
Yet there is no place in a modern global economy for complacency. Times, Sunday Times
The effort to reassure people with the captures failed to instill much confidence, and the most immediate fallout of the jailbreak was a mounting sense among Afghans that government corruption, incompetence and complacency were as much to blame as the Taliban. NYT > Home Page
Safety was sacrificed for savings, while danger signals were ignored through incompetence, complacency and cynicism. The Sun
Such stability could look like complacency; evidence of a top team that has become far too chummy. Times, Sunday Times
It can not be allowed to drift into complacency.
It was a gesture meant to signal that the era of complacency was over. Times, Sunday Times
It is an appalling and chilling chronicle of arrogance, complacency and collusion.
Fearful of being accused of complacency, they fail to allay public fears and often play up hypothetical risks.
Most feel that failure to diversify and a complacency born of the plant's long history have sounded its death knell.
However, once the story was splashed across the Sun, the authorities had to respond or face media accusations of complacency.
Such complacency is costing the company dear.
Even the most saintly of people would drift towards complacency and arrogance after such a long period.
Imagine passing a statue of yourself on the way into work: might it not lead to a teeny bit of complacency? Times, Sunday Times
He warned farmers that there was still an urgent need for caution and there was no room for complacency.
He is not out to crowbar society out of complacency.
My complacency had vanished; suddenly I had become the aggressor, if only I had known how to "aggress"; but in her presence I was seized by an accursed shyness that paralyzed my tongue, and the things I had planned to say were left unuttered. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
They despise complacency and inertia. Times, Sunday Times
Yet there was always an element of complacency about an administration which enjoyed a substantial parliamentary majority.
One lapse in concentration, one moment of complacency, can ruin a career. Times, Sunday Times
His early success as a writer led to complacency and arrogance.
One lapse in concentration, one moment of complacency, can ruin a career. Times, Sunday Times
Still, there was, at times, an element of complacency in de Gaulle's approach, which proved costly.
In the meantime, the challenge will be to stave off complacency toward reform now that chances for a rout at the polls suddenly seem remote.
However, there is no room for complacency as these results can be very deceptive on the eve of a major event like the Olympics.
The great danger is complacency that somehow the economic recovery is now on autopilot. Times, Sunday Times
She stared at him; his long face, his dolorous expression, his unbelievable aura of insufferable complacency. BEHINDLINGS
It showed alarming complacency in the face of the fiscal challenges facing the UK. Times, Sunday Times
What is so deeply revolting about her lucubrations is their unutterable and invincible bourgeois complacency.
The team manager has been quick to clamp down on the merest hint of complacency.
The uninitiated might think that the combination of openness and complacency shouldn't matter.
Otherwise, the complacency of the praise songs and the denial of real contesting positions will mean slow stagnation.
The first is a profound failure of the imagination, which comes from a certain laziness and complacency.
Not that there's cause for complacency. Times, Sunday Times
Not for the seal behind Calvin, not even for the man himself... just for the indifference, the complacency! THE LAST RAVEN
It is a competitive world and the laggards will have to rue their complacency.
That's why we cannot afford a single moment of complacency, a second of self-indulgence, a soupcon of short-sightedness, or a waking moment of egotism. Carl Pope: Game Time
This latest atrocity has sent a fresh shock wave to jolt us out of our complacency.
Thelatest trade figures will surely prick the bubble of governmentcomplacency about the economic situation.
The last thing you want to do is to make a complacent audience feel more happy in their complacency.
Crumwell (though the greatest Dissembler livinge) alwayes made his hypocrisy of singular use and benefitt to him, and never did any thinge, how ungratious or imprudent soever it seemed to be, but what was necessary to the designe; even his roughnesse and unpolishednesse which in the beginninge of the Parliament he affected, contrary to the smoothnesse and complacency which his Cozen and bosome frende Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
The paper constantly railed against complacency and demanded firmer action against the old order.
On this occasion, government and police cannot be accused of inactivity or complacency.
The coroner said: 'I have noticed evidence of a quite staggering degree of inertia and complacency. The Sun
He had fallen at the hands of sloth and torpor; of avarice and complacency.
There's no room for complacency if we want to stay in this competition!
So some dangerous complacency is creeping in. Times, Sunday Times
a simper of pride and self complacency, that it is "mizzy moddy. Townsend Chapter 14

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