| Strangely though, this doesn't come over as frosty or nihilistic, but harmless and complaisant. |
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| And a complaisant public is also, of course, invaluable to the transaction. |
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| Throughout, they appear to have used Laos more or less as a complaisant cat's paw. |
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| Noah's eyes were slightly jealous, but he was so complaisant that I figured he'd get over it in a day. |
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| Barbara mentions that a lockout calendar would remind our members not to be complaisant. |
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| In fact, if he means to keep it up, newspapers may want to send a mixed party of philosophers and wranglers, instead of complaisant hacks, to his next party conference. |
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| The complaisant attitudes came from some surprising quarters. |
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| To deter IUU operators and complaisant states from involvement with IUU fishing, a European black listing mechanism would be introduced. |
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| His friends, who have known him for more than 25 years, say he has never in his life used one single cuss word, has never been unfriendly and has always been very complaisant. |
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| For one thing, euro-zone banks can no longer shelter behind complaisant national supervisors that seek to protect their own. |
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| BaFin has long been seen as a complaisant ally reluctant to hobble a national champion. |
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| Stephen Quinn, mari complaisant of Blunkett's former lover, Kimberly Quinn, told a colleague of mine that he resented being called rich. |
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| Either too lax or too complaisant, several States on the old continent preferred to ignore the criminal activities of armed extremist groups, because they were not yet directly affected. |
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| She was reputed to have had many lovers, and Nessim was regarded as a mari complaisant. |
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