complacency

Their goal was for the album to tell a story of radicalization, following a protagonist who shifts from complacency to an awareness of injustice and institutional oppression, and ultimately resolves to act against it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

Hugo's father, William Flint Cahan, who has attended each day of the inquest with other family members, says there was "complacency" by staff, as well as a lack of care.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

But Mr. Blaževičius depicts with a deadpan ruthlessness the pull of complacency, the ease of lapsing back into lives full of compromise and myopia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

But Grande does perpetuate a silence, complacency, and enabling by painting genuine concern as gossipy chatter.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

Above Snow, the wind was a living thing, howling around them like a wolf in the waste, then falling off to nothing as if to lure them into complacency.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

The rudder in her work, and in her thinking, is this aversion to, and constant vigilance against, easy complacencies and groupthink.

From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2018

“Our contexts are not the same, our struggles are not the same, and so our rebellions and complacencies and conformities and compromises cannot be compared.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2017

The financial crisis taught us that long-held assumptions and complacencies can and will fall apart in a subprime minute.

From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 27, 2012

George Eliot, who tried to learn comedy from Dickens but didn't quite have the ear for it, is forever shaking us out of our complacencies.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2010

From all soft, easeful beliefs and silken complacencies the last Irish poet breaks away in a book of insurrections.

From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell