How To Use complaisance In A Sentence
- 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.
- -- 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
- 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.
- And this has caused a mass unjustified complaisance.
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- 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)
