(1) Noah's eyes were slightly jealous, but he was so complaisant that I figured he'd get over it in a day.(2) 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 .(3) The complaisant attitudes came from some surprising quarters.(4) And a complaisant public is also, of course, invaluable to the transaction.(5) 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.(6) Although the subsidiary was complaisant to do the parent's will, it did function in giving effect to the parent's wishes and the parent did not usurp the control of the subsidiary.(7) These ideas were encouraged by complaisant Western u2018development economistsu2019 and by a dubious semantic innovation.(8) Ruthless spin doctors and complaisant media can be a tragic mix(9) Strangely though, this doesn't come over as frosty or nihilistic, but harmless and complaisant .(10) But nothing seems to shift a complaisant populace.(11) And she notices that the shirt he so complaisantly hung from the shower rail is all wonky so that, if left, it would end up looking like one of Quasimodo's.(12) But the rise in labor standards may also stem from the sensitivity or complaisance of a richer consuming public that decides that it can afford to do better by workers.(13) Francis Fukayama, if rather more complaisantly and idealistically, has responded to the same perception.(14) A rebellion of public opinion against such complaisance is possible but not certain.(15) The Director of Human Resources points out complaisantly that factory life is not without its small pleasures.(16) If it became possible for shareholders to sue firms where those firms might reasonably have protected them from insider trading, corporate Australia's complaisance towards insider trading could take a healthy hit.
