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But they also grabbed market share from big complacent dailies and awakened the sleepy local news trade.
and squirrel, complacent carp.
The statistics might seem cold, but it's impossib le to remain complacent after meeting someone like Katherine -- or a family who has been left homeless by an illegal eviction, a senior who lost his home to foreclosure from a crooked loan transaction, or a domestic violence victim unable to navigate the courts to get a restraining order.
The album is selling tepidly; the show's been picketed by victims'-rights groups and is under threat of more pickets by Puerto Ricans opposed to racial stereotyping; the opening's been postponed to the end of the month; and, depending on which rumor you believe, the director's either so complacent that he only bothers dropping by once a week or so dozy that he hasn't noticed he's been more or less replaced by Mike ( The Graduate ) Nichols, Nick ( Miss Saigon ) Hytner or, most recently, Jerry ( Guys and Dolls ) Zaks.
TV critics, at least the political-minded ones, opine gravely that Roseanne 's cancellation proves that a complacent America has lost its appetite for "real-life," "blue-collar" characters, that all TV viewers want now are 3 rd Rock From the Sun aliens and Seinfeld yuppies.