He can refuse them nothing, and even carries his complaisance so far as to give them marks of affection without really liking them.
I am ashamed to say that hitherto I have only given myself out of mere complaisance.
The flattering complaisance of the latter counterbalances the rough honesty of the former.
This complaisance did not raise him in estimation at Vienna or elsewhere.
We yielded at last, out of complaisance towards her, and were rewarded by feeling wonderfully refreshed by a solid meal.
In this definition, complaisance is fundamentally a political skill, capable of application to either national or domestic challenges.
Complaisance, with its resources of strategic reticence, is here the monopoly of the male gallant.
The advocates of the civil virtues of complaisance tend to presume 'a threatening world in which considerable skill is needed to avoid giving offense'.
