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

It is perhaps useless to quarrel with the tendency of mankind to turn its eyes from disagreeable subjects, and to dwell complacently upon those which minister to self-content.

From Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

When he crossed the stage to them, it was with his former air of dogged indifference and cynical self-content.

From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir

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)

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