* Desiree Armfeldt: Self-absorbed, once-successful actress, now touring the country-side in what is clearly not the " glamorous life ".

Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

The suggested merger in God ( Hindu belief ) in this state involves virtually a reversion to the first state of God being Self-absorbed.

At one operated by Professor Love, a complacent student named Carrie Nation was driven to tears when she was unable to formulate an argument for a class debate concerning animal sentience.

The Times reported that " she never became complacent.

As things now stand, there is a grievous disparity between the unity in Christ which we profess in ecumenical meetings and the complacent separateness of most congregations on any Main Street in the nation.

This is often used against owners of property that are complacent in allowing protective boards to be defaced so long as the property is not damaged.

Meg is the complacent daughter who did not “ attain Alcott ’ s ideal womanhood ” of equality.

Moustachioed, complacent and greedy, he's an opportunistic money-grabber, whose habitual charge for any treatment is " ten quid "-regardless of whether the cure works or does more harm than good.

This is highlighted by Claudius's failed attempts to revive the Republic ; by the attempts of various characters to ' restore ' the Republic but with themselves as the true rulers ; and by Claudius noting that ' by dulling the blade of tyranny, I reconciled Rome to the monarchy ' – i. e., in his attempts to rule autocratically but along more Republican lines, he has only made the Roman people more complacent about living under a dictatorship.

Nagel's rationalism and tendency to present our human nature as a composite, structured around our capacity to reason, explains why he thinks therapeutic or deflationary accounts of philosophy are simply complacent and radical skepticism is, strictly speaking, irrefutable.

This eventually circulated through the crew and set, and Jimmy began to feel a bit complacent about it all, ( this is told by Jimmy in a commentary on Pappy Ford ).

It is the first of three stylised burlesques in which Jarry satirises power, greed, and their evil practices — in particular the propensity of the complacent bourgeois to abuse the authority engendered by success.

This creates a great deal of political turmoil-the USSR is especially upset at the nuclear balance of power being shifted-and while the rest of the world realigns in various ways ( through alliances and treaties as well as conventional military conflict ) the USA, complacent in its technical superiority, becomes isolationist in nature.

Miles and Luna fall in love ; but Miles is captured and brainwashed, by which he becomes a complacent member of futuristic society, while Luna joins the rebellion.

It is easy for personality test participants to become complacent about their own personal uniqueness and instead become dependent on the description associated with them.

He has a noble spirit and is equally aware of how complacent the U. N. Spacy command has become.

Since kindergarten, Angus has been regularly harassed by handsome Rick Sanford ( James Van Der Beek ), and his complacent cohorts, for not being " normal " due to being overweight and is, in their view, " named after a cow ".

To keep the children complacent Mr. Black tells the campers that Krusty has finally come, but it is only a badly-dressed Barney Gumble.

For while Bede is loyal to Northumbria he shows an even greater attachment to the Irish and the Irish Celtic missionaries, whom he considers to be far more effective and dedicated than their rather complacent English counterparts.

“ The Reader is finding that a tough act to pull off as it approaches forty .” He also suggested the Reader had grown complacent " because it was still raking in ad profits through the early 2000s " and its troubles were aggravated by a 2004 makeover that included " features on fashion " and a " tattooed, twenty-seven-year-old stripper " writing a late-night party column.

He criticises complacent resolutions where the demand is for effective action.

Parallel to this action is the story of Charles Foreman ( Bernard Lee ), a pessimistic journalist who tries unsuccessfully to rouse his complacent readers before it is too late.

It is rooted in the reformist teachings of Harada Daiun Sogaku ( 1871 – 1961 ) and his disciple Yasutani Hakuun ( 1885 – 1971 ), who argued that the existing Zen institutions of Japan ( Sōtō and Rinzai sects ) had become complacent and were generally unable to convey real Dharma.

It tells the story of a revolutionary who is discharged from a mental hospital after eight years to discover that his once-revolutionary comrades have grown complacent and hopelessly compromised within the system they once opposed.

With the famous words " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied ", ( 260 ) Mill touts the importance of being well brought up and knowledgeably curious about the world, and understanding higher pleasures such as art and music, than to be uneducated and complacent.

Neo chooses the red pill and is illuminated as to the true nature of the Matrix ; a detailed simulation of Earth circa 1999, which keeps the inhabitants, whose physical bodies are stored in massive power plants, complacent in a mental prison, in order to convert their heat and bioelectrical energy into power for machine consumption.

In a 1912 address to the Republican State Convention, he defended the anti-trust law and called for direct election of U. S. senators, income and corporate taxes as more equitable than property taxes, and an end to corrupt leadership, saying, “ We must cleanse our party of complacent plutocrats and corpulent freebooters, masquerading as Republicans .” Elected to the Governorship in 1931, he attacked lobbyists in his inaugural address and demanded fair congressional districts, measures to promote child welfare, and establishing a state conservation commission:

In 2371, under the leadership of Tain who believed that the Central Command was being too complacent about the threat of the Dominion, the Obsidian Order and their Romulan equivalent, the Tal Shiar, allied in an attempt to destroy the Dominion.

" Rednecks " began with a description of segregationist Lester Maddox pitted against a " smart-ass New York Jew " on a TV show, in a song that criticizes both southern racism and the complacent bigotry of Americans outside of the south who stereotype all southerners as racist yet ignore racism in northern and midwestern states and large cities.

Gish herself was more complacent, remarking that it saved her the trouble of " losing to Cher " ( who did, in fact, win for her performance in Moonstruck ).

The author loves Burma, he goes to great length to describe the vices of the Burmese and the horror of the climate, but he loves it, and nothing can palliate for him, the presence of a handful of inefficient complacent public school types who make their living there .... I liked it and recommend it to anyone who enjoys a spate of efficient indignation, graphic description, excellent narrative, excitement, and irony tempered with vitriol.

Her writing, however, reflects her deep concern for the realities of most refugees, who are portrayed as " a degraded and demoralised Other ", challenging complacent Western notions of stability and nationality.

He became increasingly critical of the nobles, who grew soft and complacent under the protection of his armies.

Women and children who work involuntarily are usually beaten and / or given drugs in order to make them complacent if they refuse to have sex with a certain number of clients a day.

During the early stages of the Pacific War, US skippers were relatively complacent and docile, compared to their German counterparts who understood the " life and death " urgency in the Atlantic.

With far more demand for tickets than there were available, the team was financially healthy no matter how poorly it performed on the field, and the Maras were widely viewed as complacent by observers who didn't know the depth of the ownership schism.

The dwarves taking Bilbo out of his complacent existence has been seen as an eloquent metaphor for the " impoverishment of Western society without Jews.

Most importantly, the disease became a rallying point for a previously complacent gay community.

In 1948, Martin traveled with his presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey in North Attleboro, where Martin's mother, the former Catherine Keating ( died 1957 ), told the confident Dewey, the governor of New York, that he was too complacent in the campaign and could not take victory for granted.

Adams was known for being wary of letting his teams get complacent, and was not shy about orchestrating blockbuster trades to keep them on their toes — a philosophy which won him the nickname " Trader Jack.

A complacent or poorly skilled batsman playing for the expected spin can be taken by surprise and get out bowled or lbw, or edge the ball with the outside edge of the bat to offer a catch to the wicket-keeper or slip fielders.

There ’ s a time for peace and inner-growth, but we became complacent ; and when the invasion force landed, they took us down.

" News at Ten ", a cynical examination of the generation gap and the fear of ending up as complacent as the parent he despises for his conformism, was expected to be a hit on the back of the success of " Turning Japanese "; its poorer performance was blamed in part by the long-running strike at the BBC's Top of the Pops which meant it received very little media exposure.