as in complacency
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Memories of 2016—and Hillary Clinton losing despite having a lead in the polls—make complacency among supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris impossible.Christine Adams / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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Learning From Crypto's Experience Crypto's turbulent history provides a road map of pitfalls to avoid: Avoid complacency: Recognize that public trust must be earned and maintained through consistent action and communication.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
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Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
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Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
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Nothing was off-limits in Mad, a newsstand stalwart that would reach peak annual sales in the 1970s of 2.5 million issues by delivering belly laughs and self-satisfaction to America’s class clowns through cartoons, parodies, sarcastic characters and an unending stream of gross-out gags.Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
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But by trying to avoid how Trump’s past reflects his current approach to politics—his zero-sum relationship to power, his pettiness and egotism—while simultaneously winking at viewers’ knowledge of him, the film lands itself in a trap.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
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This connects to how the Puberty Alarm cartoon substitutes for the egotism some people never outgrow — the self-justification featured in groomer films such as Eighth Grade and Love, Simon and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn.Armond White, National Review, 14 June 2024
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
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Elsewhere is a bar/parlor room, as well as an inviting primary suite that comes complete with a Juliette balcony, a walk-in closet, and a luxe bath flaunting dual vanities and a large shower.Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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Grand suites have separate in-room dining tables and some even have bathtubs and dual-sink stone vanities.Nicole Trilivas, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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The Roman allegory — in which Cesar aspires to change his government while fulfilling his creative hubris, enjoying the perks of fickle celebrity — is both inexact and unoriginal.Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
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Much like The Jinx subject Robert Durst, the Friedmans are a gang whose hubris puts their biggest secrets on display in an effort to conceal them.Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 31 July 2024
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But surely there must be a place for civil disobedience and protest that is sufficiently disruptive to rouse people from complacence.Yochai Benkler, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2012
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The campaign used Ivancie’s complacence.oregonlive, oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
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