Sentences with phrase «shaken out of their complacency»
The «Let me play devil's advocate» strategy is bizarrely inappropriate in such a situation, as it assumes that the young people in our secondary schools are so indoctrinated that they need to be shaken out of the complacency of a life of faith based on social approval.
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My idea would be to shake them out of their complacency and make them realise that they have to fight and give their all to have a chance of a place in the first XI.
«How bad do things have to get to shake him out of our complacency?»
It is as though the authors, the publishers, the teachers, and the professors of education share a bizarre consensus that ordinary children need to be shaken out of their complacency, stripped of their innocence, and frightened by the horrors that the world has in store for them at any moment.
I really want to shake her out of her complacency.
Will that be enough to shake us out of our complacency toward climate change?
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But it is hoped the horrible numbers will shake the community out of its complacency.
By turns wry and revelatory, and occasionally maddening, Carr succeeds in shaking the reader out of screen - zombie complacency.
There's also a section in which Ike takes center stage, which showcases how interacting with someone so like him has shaken him out of his long complacency.
PENSION FUNDS PROD PEARSON: The Chicago Teachers» Pension Fund is part of a group of pensions with holdings in Pearson that is trying to shake the company out of what they portray as a dangerous complacency.
Any subsequent market correction and / or spike in volatility often shakes investors out of their state of complacency and ignites fear of what they may have temporarily forgotten — markets can and will go down.
In 1965 James Rosenquist produced an artwork that shook America out of its complacency.
He would have been a perfect SAIC student — he likes to shake people out of complacency.»
He would have been a perfect SAIC student — he likes to shake people out of complacency,» Lisa Wainwright, dean of faculty and vice president of academic administration at SAIC, told the Chicago Tribune.
- Midland Free Press «Boyd's powerful, well - documented book will shake readers out of their complacency and empower them to take action against environmental hazards.»