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

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 Stephen, Leslie, Sir

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

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 Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

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 Vandercook, Margaret