| A cream marble altar stood complacently in mid-front, draped in a stunningly white tablecloth with fringes at the edges. |
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| He found the British dance public and its companies devitalized after the war and complacently parochial. |
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| Your editorial complacently endorsed the notion of matching the European Union average on health spending. |
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| Are my followers and I supposed to sit there tomorrow and eat our turkey complacently while this persecution is occurring? |
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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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| The guys who run the companies now are sheep complacently chewing on their dollar bills. |
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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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| Like iguanas, nodding complacently perhaps in friendship, possibly in challenge towards the hoary, pewter, slate-smashed sea. |
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| The truth is more tangled and doesn't fit complacently established cultural patterns. |
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| The possibility that the United Kingdom might be heading for the history books has been complacently dismissed as unthinkable. |
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| I will not stand by complacently and watch the demise of the family farm in this country happen any faster than it is already. |
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| The European Union cannot complacently and regardless of others develop its own human rights culture in such a way as to upset the balance. |
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| It is vulnerable to hijacking by ideological bullies while the majority complacently occupies itself enjoying its benefits. |
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| This new and oncoming social order will not settle down complacently for a millennium. |
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| Anyone who complacently maintains that racism is impossible in their territory is not only wrong but irresponsible. |
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| Instead he complacently believed that because the Federal Reserve had defeated inflation, all was well with the economy. |
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| But later that day I went down to the pond to find the mother duck sitting complacently on the water while 12 little ducklings were shuttling about around her. |
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| We could, of course, act complacently, we could pretend to close our eyes and to believe that we might convince the Portuguese Presidency, which in turn may convince the other Member States. |
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| He does not fear expressing himself through this work, at times with humour, sometimes vehemently but never complacently, on land, social and cultural issues facing the Cree Nation. |
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| Mr Brown honed his droning, attritional approach to economic chat in a different job and in different times: during a boom, when voters were complacently content to be bored by their seemingly alchemic chancellor. |
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| Mr Barnier even complacently stressed, during his hearing last week, that the process of preparing the Charter should be brought together with the process of constitutionalising the Treaties. |
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| But we must not complacently rest on our laurels now. |
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| Many errors are made in estimating the classes which form the market, and many sales are lost because merchants complacently accept a narrow market. |
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| This is not to say that manufacturers should accept complacently a narrow market, but rather that they should dig into the problem of finding new areas of probable consumption. |
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| Right now is the time to determine that you will never give in to inertia, just as soon as you are content to sit complacently satisfied with a modest success, men you graduated with will start to pass you. |
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