“The student's complacence in his test scores, despite mediocre performance, was both misplaced and detrimental to his future growth.”

“Despite the urgency of the climate crisis, many individuals exhibit complacence and fail to take meaningful action.”

“The deep pessimism which infects the classic Cold War novel gives way to a complacence born of the hero's capacity to survive.”

“This latest atrocity has jolted us out of our complacency.”

“He declared his nationality with a certain prideful complacency.”

“Conservatism and caution can become complacency and quietism, even though they don't start that way.”

“The fugato textures provoke the disturbance of complacencies even while the tonal centres remain secure.”

“From all soft, easeful beliefs and silken complacencies the last Irish poet breaks away in a book of insurrections.”

“No one else can have part in any complacencies arising from it.”