perfect contentment

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Hideg sat in perfect contentment, listening as the hottest new band in L.A. played “I Should Care,” a soulful standard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2023

Part of this essence came from Father Mike’s perfect contentment at being only five foot four.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“Pain and aches, boat journeys, marches, hunger and fatigue seemed to belong to the limbo of forgotten things, and there remained only the perfect contentment that comes of work accomplished.”

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

He read as an old man unaccustomed to letters must read,—slowly and with a show of labor, but with perfect contentment as to his progress, and a brightening face.

From How John Norton the Trapper Kept His Christmas by Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)

Barnes would see him living every day in perfect contentment with a few books and a few pictures.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton