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

There was, to tell the truth, even a slight shade of self-content and approbation upon his handsome countenance.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

It is too early for you to bother over problems of self-improvement—as for me it is too late; wherefore we are alike in the calm of our self-content.

From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Hendrick, Burton Jesse

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 Meakin, Budgett

"I did see my way," said Brisket, with much self-content.

From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Trollope, Anthony