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

But he held to the trail, for the most part in perfect contentment, enjoying his unwonted call to duty, but wondering whither it was leading him.

From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus

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)