self-content
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Cricket is linked with the Golden Age of English power and self-content, the idyll that supposedly existed before the First World War.
From Newsweek
For these are necessary if for no more than as alarm clocks to awake us from our dreaming self-content.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks
John Waters, John the self-absorbed, With thoughts for ever inward bent, Complacent, self-contained, self-orbed, Wrapped in eternal self-content.
From The Guards Came Through and Other Poems by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Englishman, armed in his panoply of self-content, and grasping facts with unequalled tenacity, goes on trampling upon acuter sensibilities, but somehow shouldering his way successfully through the troubles of the universe.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
Her wrinkled face and care-worn look tell a different tale from the pompous self-content of the merchant by her side, who drives as hard a bargain as she does.
From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Budgett Meakin
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