self-content
Example Sentences
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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
You go serenely on your way, wrapped in a cloak of supreme self-content and satisfaction.
From Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story by Amy Le Feuvre
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
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament.
From The Shepherd Psalm A Meditation by William Evans
Sally indolent, Sally dreaming her own small and rather selfish dreams, or a Sally self-assured and self-content were not unfamiliar figures to her world.
From The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor by Margaret Vandercook
