His feeling of complacence was brought about by his excellent performance. From LearnThat.org.
"A week now," returned Webster with much complacence. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
Their complacence ran over to me, and I just hung my head. From Wordnik.com. [vor f��nfzehn Jahren] Reference
And yet something in this complacence of hers bewildered him. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Goodbye (and good riddance) to England, and its snooty complacence. From Wordnik.com. ['Good-Bye to All That'] Reference
I could not imagine what had given him this insolent self-complacence. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
"M. le Baron, I make you my compliments of your complacence," said Count. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
When Nature first framed him, she took a secret complacence in her worke. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
They rise from their complacence and take to the streets by the millions. From Wordnik.com. [KARL ROVE'S NIGHTMARE SCENARIO] Reference
This affected contempt of life is only an excess of your complacence to me. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
This cool and honest speech let down his stiffened muscles into complacence. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Is that because of apathy, laziness, complacence, or simply lack of interest?. From Wordnik.com. [Sanjiv Gupta: Time for politics] Reference
Happy those who obtain a promise, a look of complacence, or even of curiosity!. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference
MacMaine waited with almost fatalistic complacence for the inevitable to happen. From Wordnik.com. [The Highest Treason] Reference
It was self-complacent, yet there was small apparent ground for such complacence. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
Having all the control centralized eventually leads to complacence and stagnation. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Parker: Twitter/Facebook Will Soon Dominate The Web — Not Google.] Reference
"Oh, Harvey!" she said, laughing and viewing the newly married pair with complacence. From Wordnik.com. [Unlikely Duchess]
The moonshiner received with complacence this evidence of yielding on the girl's part. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Yes, I shall say, with the complacence of one who thinks that he has made a noble discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Theaetetus] Reference
There was a touch of complacence in this last, an invitation to behold a finished work of art. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
“That looks very well, child!” she said critically with a shade of complacence in her voice. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
“Is there nothing under the sun that can puncture your unbelievable complacence?” she demanded. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Her recent experiences with the Vances had wholly unfitted her to view her own state with complacence. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie] Reference
After minutely describing her person, which she evidently regards with much complacence, she continues. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
There are those that accept it quietly, shoving forward with their lives into the limbo of complacence. From Wordnik.com. [thejanechord Diary Entry] Reference
He was tired and upset and probing desperately within for some remnant of the cold complacence of a week ago. From Wordnik.com. [Jimsy The Christmas Kid] Reference
"I have now a new ministry, and there are no more Jesuits in Bavaria," announced Ludwig with much complacence. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
She arose, drew across the opening a leathern curtain, and returned with undisturbed complacence to her prayers. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
At that M'Iver's countenance changed: he threw off his soft complacence, and cruelty and temper stiffened his jaw. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
Indeed, he very often made her such presents; and she, in complacence to him, spent much time in adorning herself. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
The aging leader of Team Monotheism is accused of arrogance and complacence, and for allowing the game to pass him by. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Asghar: A Holy World War, NBA-Style] Reference
So now we're free to look to the future, and you have to tell voters our enemy is not adversity here; our enemy is complacence. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President To Dccc Luncheon In Cincinnati] Reference
The fat pig rolls in wallowing rapture, defying his friends to make pork of him yet, and hugs with complacence unpickleable hams. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Anerley] Reference
I say in complacence to him, because she always exprest the greatest contempt for dress, and for those ladies who made it their study. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
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