complaisance

He had probably never enjoyed the complaisance of a really good woman before.

There was a sort of uneasy complaisance in their relationship now.

The public had shown complaisance, but it was certainly not yet taken by storm.

She must not be left to her own complaisance.

"Possibly his friends showed him too much complaisance in the matter.

Catherine's complaisance was no longer what it had been in their former airing.

The gods grant they have not drugged her into complaisance.

The fifth Law is complaisance: that every man strive to accommodate himself to the rest.

All the earlier hostility had faded, replaced by a curious complaisance.

She accepted with complaisance that Beth would be gone by the time she returned.

Yet, with all apparent complaisance, she sat, smiled, and laughed at his rather clever comments.

Please himself with complaisance who will, - for me, things must take my scale, not I theirs.

"They've rejected two versions so far, despite England's surprising complaisance.

The unruffled complaisance in her face and voice provided Phoebe with the second shock of the day.

Agnes submitted with the complaisance of a baby, her rheumy-eyed attention still focused on me.

His normal air of complaisance was gone.

He exhibited a charming complaisance about being used.

Did he carry his complaisance and interest so far as to offer you his escort?"

Diplomacy, good temper, and, if necessary, seeming complaisance, would be more likely to win the day than any attempt at threatening.

At first they both appeared embarrassed, for with his usual complaisance he was busy on a secret errand.

If consensus breeds academic complaisance, chaos does the opposite.

So it was important that I not treat the stud any differently, or try to suborn him into complaisance.

It was probably out of complaisance to this great company that the government agreed to render this law perpetual.

I had paid dear for my complaisance.

The woman had spoken in complaisance; but she had warmed to her own words, and tenderness followed.