But maybe my bitter complacence about our civilization's irreversible decline is just a projection of my feelings about my own.
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Despite all these differences, though, the Brexit result should jolt American liberals out of any complacence they may feel about Trump's candidacy.
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The recent and evolving news from Florida points out clearly that in a global environment, no country or community can afford complacence.
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These men want complacence and silence, even though we fought for and had friends who died for the right of citizens to speak freely against injustice and inequity.
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But Andreas Guske, a trim, steely-eyed police inspector in the refugee-heavy Bavarian town of Traunstein where the rumor circulated, didn't think his community could afford complacence.
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Outraged by her father's betrayal and furious at her mother's seeming complacence, she hops a train, landing unannounced at the Maine home of her grandfather, a man she's met exactly once before.
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PREPA — with its historic resistance to transparency, its record of financial recklessness, its years of operational failures, its deep-seated hostility to professional planning standards and renewable energy — must be jarred from its complacence.
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When they're together, however, Tennant and Sheen's chemistry shines, and the series twirls around their transition from an all-too-human complacence to a growing horror over the coming apocalypse — and the possible end of their long, star-crossed relationship.
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When we imagine that writers from the past are visiting our world, it subtly reinforces our complacence, our tendency to believe that the efforts at moral improvement made by earlier generations attained their climax, their fulfillment, their perfection, in us.
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Inactivity on the part of a terrorist group should never instill complacence – something Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proved true with his recent audio message, which has, once again, brought to the fore the need to launch exhaustive counter-terror efforts against the Islamic State.
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If the central claim, that to "live effectively" you must walk the line between "a great slope of complacence on one side" and "rather a mess-up of promiscuity" on the other, sounds reasonably plausible in the moment, that is a credit to the dapper Mr. von Essen.
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University of Nebraska Press. p. 113\. . Google Books. > Retrieved May 15, 2006. The phrase also can have negative connotations, as some may perceive the lack of reaction to adversity as complacence, both to social and political forces.
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Misra's works are essentially anti-establishment and blasphemous in nature. He questions and thereby disturbs our complacence as readers. According to him, his works remain incomplete without the active participation of his readers. Starting from the titles of his books, he tries to destroy all the traditional and preconceived notions about art and literature.
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Bernstein's later recording of the concerto, with Krystian Zimerman, runs to 54 minutes (although the first movement, at 24:32 vs. 25:37, and third movement, at 13:00 vs. 13:34, are considerably shorter), and other recordings are of comparable length. Gould, for his part, is said to have thoroughly enjoyed the proceedings, especially the fact that he had provoked some booing from the audience; he held that some controversy was better than quiet complacence with the performance.
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38 They were tried in court at Delhi's Red Fort. At his trial, Godse did not deny the charges nor express any remorse. According to Claude Markovits, a French historian noted for his studies of colonial India, Godse stated that he killed Gandhi because of his complacence towards Muslims, holding Gandhi responsible for the frenzy of violence and sufferings during the subcontinent's partition into Pakistan and India. Godse accused Gandhi of subjectivism and of acting as if only he had a monopoly of the truth.
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Soon after the thunderous feu de joie, when thousands of soldiers fired off their muskets, General Washington and his wife received other officers under a large marquee fashioned from dozens of officers' tents. General Washington was said to have worn "a countenance of uncommon delight and complacence."John F. Reed, Valley Forge: Crucible of Victory (Monmouth Beach: Peter Freneau Press, 1969), 56. Five days later, on May 11, 1778, Martha and George attended the camp production of Joseph Addison's play Cato, a favorite of the General's.
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Commemorative plaque devoted to Kārlis Padegs at Elizabete iela 24, Riga Kārlis Padegs died in Riga, April 1940 from tuberculosis. He was 28 years old. He suffered from it all his life and after the very productive period in the 1939 he was so exhausted that his illness finally overcame the young painter. In later days he was nearly forgotten and only in the early 1980s marking the end of a period of general self- complacence did one of the most peculiar Latvian artists and his work became of current interest.
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When Ymir reveals herself as a Titan to save her at Castle Utgard, Krista honors the promise they made prior by revealing and accepting her true identity as heir to the Royal Family. Later, she and Eren are abducted by Rod Reiss and brought to his cavern where Titan inheritance ceremonies took place. As his only living heir, Reiss attempts to convince Historia to become a Titan and consume Eren to regain the Coordinate power of the Founding Titan. However, having learned of the Founding Titan's curse of complacence in the face of adversity, Hisotria refuses.
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Easwara Kala Bhoothathan God Shiva is worshipped in the form of Sri Easwara Kala Bhoothathan in this temple. God Shiva gets pleased easily and fulfills people’s desire easily; the chanting of Nama Sivaya frees people from sins and brings them complacence. Nagaraja & Nagayakshi Nagaraja & Nagayakshi are the supreme of Snake gods, which is being worshipped in this temple since years. Every year during the occasion of makarvilakku festival and Prathishta Vaarshikam, Vishesha Nagaroottu is performed, which is offered and attended by all devotees to attain salvation from Sarpa doshas and Drishti doshas and for curing diseases and getting healthy children.
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When the public views its urban monuments with sidelong glances out of the corners of its eyes, it accepts the monuments as natural and uncoded. By intercepting vision with projections, Wodiczko replaces an unconsidered reception with a critical one.MacQueen, Tactical Response, 120 and Krzysztof Wodiczko, "Designing for a City of Strangers" (1997) in Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects and Interviews (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999), 4-15. This is the lesson of the Russian Formalists, of Bertolt Brecht's Verfremdungseffekt and of Friedrich Nietzsche's understanding of Goethe's belief that knowledge must quicken activity rather than lead to complacence.
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He told MNS leaders to shed their complacence and advised his supporters to "take action" whenever they felt necessary. He warned that North Indians who did not speak Marathi and did not respect Marathi culture would be driven away. Raj dared the police in his speech by saying, "Arrest me for this if you can". After analysing the speech amidst demand for action against the MNS chief a senior police official quoted it was "difficult to find an explicit threat or provocation" in the text of his speech to initiate strong legal action against him and "it seems he [Raj] consulted legal experts before making the speech".
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When he is further questioned about the murder, Jesse starts to panic due to the memory of it and pays two druggies to kick Walter out of the house. Walter later laments to Saul about how the meth business is falling apart because no one is acting professionally, and rejects an offer to go into hiding. Jesse's detached complacence eventually leads to all of his meth money being stolen from his house, but Mike quickly recovers it and warns Jesse that he's on thin ice. Jesse is apathetic about the loss and recovery, leading Mike to tell Gus that Jesse's lack of professionalism is a problem for the organization, and they must intervene.
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The chorus then returns to the original riff again, and then returns to the verse. Then, the song goes into a slower, 4/4 beat with palm muted guitar, background percussion by Stephen Perkins and the trance-like vocals of Maynard James Keenan performing his famous words ("I've got no patience now/so sick of complacence now/sick of you/time has come to pay", 34 words including repeated lines). It was planned that Perkins' Jane's Addiction bandmate Perry Farrell would be doing the section but was absent leading to Maynard as his replacement on short notice."Tom Morello Gives Us Some Further Insight into RATM and Tool’s History" (2012-12-21). FourthEye.net.
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His initiative is that both sides of Rome unite to fight, yet on seeing Romulus's complacence soon decides he would rather set his resistance campaign in motion from Alexandria, whence he resolves to sail the following day. At this point the rich German trouser manufacturer Caesar Rupf arrives, offering to pay the Germanic forces 10 Million sestertii in return for a retreat, yet only if he can take the Princess Rea as his bride. Romulus refuses this, stating he would readily sell the Empire for a handful of sestertii, but he will not sell his daughter. ;Act two The remaining secretaries of the Empire gather in the Villa's Park, musing on the impending destruction of the Empire and contemplate begging Romulus to resume reigning and defeat the Germanic people.
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"The War of the Worlds" begins with a paraphrase of the beginning of the novel, updated to contemporary times. The announcer introduces Orson Welles: > We know now that in the early years of the 20th century, this world was > being watched closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal > as his own. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their > various concerns, they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as > narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures > that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacence, > people went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs, serene in > the assurance of their dominion over this small spinning fragment of solar > driftwood which by chance or design man has inherited out of the dark > mystery of Time and Space.
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In Gauthier's poetic work, she constantly questions external systematic attacks from a late capitalist society on the private life of the individual and on their personal expression, their burial under an accumulation of objects, a complacence with violence, a taste for sensationalism, what she calls the “tabloidization” of language or its exoticism. Gauthier frequently draws on archives for inspiration in her work. For example, La cité dolente, is based on real events while kaspar de pierre was adapted from the biography of the famous orphan Kaspar Hauser. Her collection je neige (entre les mots de villon) establishes a dialogue between the personal biography of François Villon and his work, while maintaining critical distance with her material. These books adopt a complex position in relation to the archive, where the archives are at once “suspected of a desire for reanimation.
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Brian Hiatt, writing for Rolling Stone, noted that "with a beat this hooky, everybody wins" although he criticized the individual performances of Lil Wayne as "lazy" and Jay-Z for "sticking in an over-obvious nod to his single 'Jockin' Jay-Z'", and also felt the use of the "Paper Planes" sample risked undermining M.I.A.'s artistry: "It's hard not to be slightly bummed by the prospect of one of the decade's most innovative artists being reduced to a hook girl." Ian Cohen of Pitchfork felt that, "For better or worse, "Swagga Like Us" defines Paper Trail", arguing that T.I.'s then upcoming prison sentence "trigger[ed] an impulse to challenge himself" to improve the quality of his performances across the album. However, he too denounced the rappers as generally overconfident, concluding that "one-upmanship [gave] way to self-assured competence and Khaled-inspired complacence", although he complimented T.I. for "effortlessly best[ing] them all". The Guardians Angus Batey considered the idea of the four artists recording together to be better than the song itself, calling it "good-on-paper, less-so-in-the-booth".
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