complacence

How To Use complacence In A Sentence

• Words are slaves, noetic myrmidons laboring to interdigitate bolides of inspiration with cosmeticized complacence. Learning New Words #2 « Write Anything
• The deep pessimism which infects the classic Cold War novel gives way to a complacence born of the hero's capacity to survive.
• 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
• 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
• Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence. Chapter 43
• 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?
• Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence. Chapter 43
• 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.
• Martin grinned and accepted the invitation, marvelling the while at his complacence. Chapter 43
• 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"