contentedness
Example Sentences
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Cumulatively, Ms. Riley evokes fragile feelings of vulnerability and longing among her characters, while gesturing toward a potential for contentedness in community and intellectual integrity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The country is regularly billed as one of the happiest places on Earth, based on studies that purport to rank national contentedness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
Mikkelsen can, because he wears an assurance that telegraphs his contentedness with filling space without sucking the air out of the room.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2022
Either I was approaching some new state of equanimity and contentedness or I was depressed.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
I feel freedom for the first time in months, and an air of contentedness wanders next to me all the way home.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
