Sentences with phrase «on complacency»

«Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» isn't a righteous demagogic attack on the complacency of the police, or on masculine violence and privilege — though it is a meditation on those things.

The billboard messages are an attack on the complacency of the local police force, and especially its chief, Sheriff Bill Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), for having failed to find the killer, or to even put much effort into it.

Bull markets run on complacency.

This time around wenger is hinting on complacency being the issue, what with Chile winning a major tournament, With Sanchez heavily involved.

It will be a close game, but with Reading's players dreaming of — and perhaps expecting — Wembley, the Bantams will be ready to pounce on any complacency, and claim a narrow win.

The ringside scenes never knock you back, and the script verges on complacency.

After the opening scene of Spectre, the rest of the film seems to rely on the complacency of being a James Bond film.

They have taken for granted that they love each other; their relationship centers on complacency.

Speaking to the BBC, Nicky Morgan provided more details on the term that was first introduced in the Queen's speech on 27 May and warned that she plans to «shine a light on complacency».

«I'm unapologetic about shining a spotlight on complacency and I want the message to go out loud and clear, that education isn't simply about pushing children over an artificial borderline, but instead about stretching every pupil to unlock their potential and give them the opportunity to get on in life.

Her lightness of touch has something of early Philip Guston — which, be it duly noted, already bordered on complacency, enough that Guston abandoned all - over painting soon enough for the cartoon angst that one remembers today.

The exhibition as a whole may appear deadpan, satirical or pathetic — in any case each of the constituent works turns its back on complacency, and, in doing so, becomes material evidence of resistance (kicking from within the sack).

Cyber-criminals prey on complacency.

Menzies Campbell, the foreign affairs spokesman, made an uncompromising attack on complacency and hypocrisy in his party, urging it to stop «saying different things to different people» and to adopt a clear set of mainstream proposals.

Those that call themselves analysts blamed it on complacency.

By turns violent and comical, the project is a vivid, engaging and forthright attack on complacency.