Such complacency is premature.

Such complacency is unwarranted.

They have feel good value, but little else.

But what is ultimately more important doing good or feeling good?

Having destroyed an aristocracy, the French were inclined to survey its ruins with complacency.

In fact, to the extent that dampened trading diminishes market feedback to firms and their directors, it could make managers complacent.

Consider recycling, which is often just a feel good gesture with little environmental benefit and significant cost.

But in an already polarized environment, an Ortega Bush standoff is nothing more than a self fulfilling prophecy.

Parties fight for those who can be made to feel good about themselves, but they may not fully realize that this is only partly a matter of policy.

But it is the agenda of pending reforms that should stifle excessive complacency.

Such measures are difficult to get worked up about both for Catholics who do not take them seriously and for the simple faithful. They have feel good value, but little else.

But we cannot be complacent that the forces of national egoism will remain in check.

Moreover, low self esteem exacerbates a feeling of helplessness and lack of control.

Unfortunately, the new complacency about future deficits makes it difficult, if not impossible, to enact the legislation needed to begin the process of trimming America s long term fiscal deficit.

Both parties are less complacent than the current government about the eurozone s stability and Europe s growth prospects.

But does such a calculus make sense, or is it simply wishful thinking, a reassuring and comfortable illusion designed to make French leaders feel good, when in fact they are dealing with Russia on purely commercial grounds?

Other EU leaders cannot afford to be complacent, either. The EU is already disintegrating, and the risk of Brexit is very real.

Recent events in Congo and elsewhere suggest that there is no room for complacency.

An expansion of trade, with estimated benefits exceeding 100 trillion annually toward the end of the century, would do thousands of times more good than timid feel good policies that result from fear mongering.

It will not be easy, and it will not allow time for complacency, given that the EU is most likely to remain in crisis mode for some time to come.

In all of these domains, as well as at the global level, where reform is equally urgent, there is no longer any room for complacency.

So we actually managed to reconcile the needs of the design company, the needs of the individuals in the company, to feel good about a product we were actually designing, and the needs of the individuals we were designing it for.

Nationalism (except in football stadiums) gave way to smug self satisfaction at having found more civilized, diplomatic, and pacific solutions to human conflicts.

It may inspire virtuous feelings, but its vain symbolism reveals exactly what is wrong with today s feel good environmentalism.

Swami Dayananda Saraswati unravels the parallel paths of personal development and attaining true compassion. He walks us through each step of self realization, from helpless infancy to the fearless act of caring for others.

This progress is all the more important given the complacency that led to a complete standstill in research and development for new TB interventions toward the end of the twentieth century.

Many international observers believe that politics simply no longer matters much in Britain, because the economy is fundamentally sound and growing at a fairly healthy pace. But this is a dangerously complacent argument.

Although there are fewer countries in a state of armed conflict and civil strife on the continent, we should obviously not be complacent because of what has been achieved so far.

At the same time, the focus on financial reform in developed economies, while warranted, has contributed to complacency in developing economies.

In an era of globalized financial markets, when countries can find it hard to cope with rapid cross border capital flows, there is no time for complacency.

Gays and other modern practices are rejected as self indulgent. As the political scientist Andrew Hacker recently put it, the Bush candidacy was framed to make a majority by giving some 60 million people a chance to feel good about themselves.

Madness expressed itself in degrees of mental impairment, the common symptoms of which were chronic discomfort in one s environment (social maladjustment), uncertainty about oneself, oscillation between self loathing and megalomania, and sometimes a complete loss of identity.

Dan Ariely What makes us feel good about our work?

American intellectuals failure to challenge these ideas and to help the US population shed complacent attitudes based on ignorance perpetuates a culture of coddling the public.

Having served as the IMF s chief economist from 2001 to 2003, I am familiar with the Fund s need to walk a tightrope between building investor confidence and shaking up complacent policymakers.

Regardless of its effectiveness, the armed struggle waged by the PLO did empower the Palestinians and internalize a sense of collective dignity and self respect within them.

While this is not news to emerging markets, which have experienced many financial crises in the last quarter century, a half century of financial stability lulled advanced economies into complacency.

CAMBRIDGE The United States still faces a dangerous fiscal deficit, but one might not know it from the complacency that dominates budget discussions in Washington.

But we agreed that there was no call for complacency.

But we agreed that there was no call for complacency.

Adedana echoed similar sentiment

No Time for Complacency

But Asia cannot be complacent financial systems remain fragile economies are burdened with high fiscal and current account deficits and Asia remains too heavily dependent on North American and European export markets, increasing its vulnerability to external shocks.

On our current complacent path, with a meager 2 billion of public funds spent annually worldwide on researching and developing green energy sources, the necessary breakthroughs will not happen in time.

NEW YORK We live in a time of high anxiety. Despite the world s unprecedented total wealth, there is vast insecurity, unrest, and dissatisfaction.