How To Use Complacently In A Sentence
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The Banksy Effect, the term coined by journalist Max Foster several years ago, speaks to an awakening of interest in the (often illegal) interventions that artists use to call attention to the way we complacently live under larger-than-life infrastructures built (often) by one-eyed men.
Dylan Kendall: Street Art: A Window to a City's Soul
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In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-apparelled shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions.
THE KANAKA SURF
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And in that look is the end of innocence, of benevolent patronage, an era when strolling architects and plumy journalists can gossip complacently about how they have arranged a good time for the rest of us.
The Festival of Britain, 60 years on
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That is what I call snug," said Randy complacently.
Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters
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This is all rather like a dog complacently assuming that you will give him the entire turkey if he merely sits on his hind legs and limps his forepaws.
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Some of these false notes proceed simply from the immense growth of every sort of facilitation -- so that people are much more free than of old to come and go and do, to inquire and explore, to pervade and generally "infest"; with a consequent loss, for the fastidious individual, of his blest earlier sense, not infrequent, of having the occasion and the impression, as he used complacently to say, all to himself.
Italian Hours
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban-shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front-folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waistcoats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails.
Silas Marner
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`The cynosure ," said his assistant complacently, spreading the word out as if it were caviare.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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he complacently lived out his life as a village school teacher
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One of the boys sleeps on a sofa while the other stares complacently at the camera, arms raised apprehensively.
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She washes her hands, like Pilate before the murder of Christ. ‘The poverty of the poor,’ we say complacently, ‘is due to their drinking habits and thriftlessness.’
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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I suppose there are places in America where such a show might still jolt its viewers, but to see "The Scottsboro Boys" on Broadway is to witness a nightly act of collective self-congratulation in which the right-thinking members of the audience preen themselves complacently at the thought of their own enlightenment.
A Perilous Page of History to Turn
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A cream marble altar stood complacently in mid-front, draped in a stunningly white tablecloth with fringes at the edges.
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While many Napa barrel rooms are temples of modern cooperage, the storage at Mayacamas seems complacently disheveled.
Visiting Mayacamas Vineyards, Napa Valley [guest post] | Dr Vino's wine blog
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Many a young partridge who strutted complacently among the stubble, with all the finicking coxcombry of youth, and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye, with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience, alike unconscious of their approaching doom, basked in the fresh morning air with lively and blithesome feelings, and a few hours afterwards were laid low upon the earth.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-appareled, shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions.
“It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
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Thus bellowed the strong voices of the men and the reedier tones of the women, while the clear little pipes of the children went up complacently.
Secret Bread
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Edwin Bentham was a boy, thrust by mischance into a man's body, -- a boy who could complacently pluck a butterfly, wing from wing, or cower in abject terror before a lean, nervy fellow, not half his size.
THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE
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Weather like yon is too good to last," said Mrs. Watson complacently,
Purple Springs
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She not only watched complacently the butcheries of Alva, but she plotted and counterplotted, now offering aid to the Prince of
The Age of the Reformation
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'No: I don't; and that is the advantage of not knowing any language but my own,' complacently replied Matilda, who considered all study but that of art as time wasted, and made her small store of French answer admirably by talking very loud and fast, and saying, '_Oui, oui, oui_,' on all occasions with much gesticulation, and bows and smiles of great suavity and sweetness.
Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
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Old Solomon, in his seedy clothes and long white locks, seemed to be luring that decent company by the magic scream of his fiddle -- luring discreet matrons in turban shaped caps, nay, Mrs. Crackenthorp herself, the summit of whose perpendicular feather was on a level with the Squire's shoulder -- luring fair lasses complacently conscious of very short waists and skirts blameless of front - folds -- luring burly fathers in large variegated waist-coats, and ruddy sons, for the most part shy and sheepish, in short nether garments and very long coat-tails.
Silas Marner (1885)
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It would take a nervier gang than Arizona owns to try and rob this outfit," and Blake looked complacently around among the shadowy forms of the troopers flitting about the bivouac.
A Wounded Name
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I shall recite mesel '," he explained complacently, sucking in his smoke.
The Nest Builder
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Far too many institutions husbanded their cash resources for sunnier days, complacently believing that the time would come when wonderful buying opportunities would be there for the taking at their leisure.
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He found the British dance public and its companies devitalized after the war and complacently parochial.
