0 a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder: --
1 a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder: --
This carefully researched and gracefully written book has the authority of an inhouse history with none of its complacency.
Neo-orthodoxy mocked its complacency, liberation theology its timidity.
Uncertainty and doubt concerning the future of mathematics have replaced the certainties and complacency of the past.
Instead of complacency, the main point of interest became the conflict between opponent theories involving different disciplines and their consequently different concepts.
Yergin suggests public complacency was in decline by 1948.
However, complacency with existing models rarely serves the scientific mind, and it will be interesting to see what future work reveals.
Everything is here: surprise, dismay, complacency, botched-up appearances, introversion, ego split, and unhealthy spirituality.
These two books are helpful both in challenging our complacency and in pointing the way towards creativity and innovation.
