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complacent
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Mrs. Warren's Profession
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- At the same time I accept the enormous compliment to my reasoning powers with sincere complacency; and I promise my flatterer that when he is sufficiently accustomed to and therefore undazzled by problem on the stage to be able to attend to the familiar factor of humanity in it as well as to the unfamiliar one of a real environment, he will both see and feel that Mrs Warren's Profession is no mere theorem, but a play of instincts and temperaments in conflict with each other and with a flinty social problem that never yields an inch to mere sentiment.†
Act Authcomplacency = contentment (often unworried to a fault)
- The most vicious man in the play is not in the least a stage villain; indeed, he regards his own moral character with the sincere complacency of a hero of melodrama.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(complacent) contented (unworried and satisfied) -- often to a fault
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)