How To Use Complaisance In A Sentence
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To return to our Egistus, the fluter; it was remarkable that in becoming more insupportable, the traitor put on the appearance of complaisance.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau
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Polite manners, a versatility of mind, a complaisance even to enemies, and the volto sciolto, with the pensieri stretti, are only to be learned at courts, and must be well learned by whoever would either shine or thrive in them.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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A rebellion of public opinion against such complaisance is possible but not certain.
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Applying PVDF as a sensitive material, the developed sensor has a complaisance surface and a minimal size, very suitable for the bionical hand.
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Some are, and must be, greater than the rest;" but then, as Dr Beattie observes, "the superiority vested by law in the man is compensated to the woman by that superior complaisance which is paid them by every man who aspires to elegance of manners.
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
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complaisance" -- that every man strive to accommodate himself to the rest.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics
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If consensus breeds academic complaisance, chaos does the opposite.
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Yet, It's A Wonderful Life has a dark, brooding heart and it openly questions in brutal terms the complaisance of small-town life just after the world's worst-ever conflict, a war that snuffed out tens of millions of people.
Tom Watson: George Bailey and the Darkness on the Edge of Town
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Besides, he began to find himself a mere novice in French gallantry, which is supported by an amazing volubility of tongue, and obsequious and incredible attention to trifles, a surprising faculty of laughing out of pure complaisance, and a nothingness of conversation which he could never attain.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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I felt myself very comfortable in that house, and every individual of the family had all kind of complaisance for me.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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But the only ground of this decree being in complaisance to the rigid Jews that had embraced the Christian faith, and, except in that one case of scandal, all meats being pronounced free and indifferent to all Christians as soon as the reason of the decree ceased, which, at furthest, was after the destruction of Jerusalem, the obligation of it ceased likewise.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Rational Review
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If consensus breeds academic complaisance, chaos does the opposite.
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If it became possible for shareholders to sue firms where those firms might reasonably have protected them from insider trading, corporate Australia's complaisance towards insider trading could take a healthy hit.
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Our chief, not relishing this kind of complaisance in the
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Rational Review
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David came to the crown kings were sometimes his companions; they visited him and he returned their visits; but he did not, in complaisance to them, talk of every thing but religion, for fear of affronting them and making his conversation uneasy to them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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When people say that they like their pork chops, veal, or foie gras just too much ever to give them up, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony, willfulness, or at best moral complaisance.
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When I am angry I can pray well, and preach well;" and if we knew the genesis of fine-strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
Representative Men
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In token of this general grief, I covered the deep for him, put that into black, gave a stop to business, in complaisance to this universal mourning.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Vexations and a tempest of passion only fill his sail; as the good Luther writes, “When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well”: and, if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck.
Representative Men
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The design of Christianity is to soften and meeken the spirit, to teach us the art of obliging and true complaisance; not to be servants to the lust of any, but to the necessities and infirmities of our brethren -- to comply with all that we have to do with as fare as we can with a good conscience.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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And this has caused a mass unjustified complaisance.
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But the rise in labor standards may also stem from the sensitivity or complaisance of a richer consuming public that decides that it can afford to do better by workers.
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-- This confidingness, this complaisance, this showing-the-cards of German HONESTY, is probably the most dangerous and most successful disguise which the
Beyond Good and Evil
