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Relying too complacently on the defensive strategy of the fortified Maginot Line along the northeast frontier with Germany (but not facing Belgium), the French were totally unprepared for the German invasion across the Ardennes in May 1940.
It considered the environment in the United States so hospitable that the 9/11 operatives used America as their staging area for further training and exercises-traveling into, out of, and around the country and complacently using their real names with little fear of capture.
They have complacently chosen to update and marginally simplify Eilert Ekwall's previous Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names . I see very little evidence that they stopped to think who would be interested in this specialized information, and how it could best be presented.
"They decimated my business; they decimated my catalogue, by luring me into this kind of complacently by lying to me.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Catholic convert and priest who wrote near the beginning of the 20 th century, had the gift of seeing spiritual life as dynamic, even agonized, rather than complacently sweet.