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

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

These mixed feelings ruffled the bright surface of her self-content, inflated as it was by her increasing social success.

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.

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)

He had hoped to provoke from the plaisant some further expression of self-content in his plans for the future, but the other had become guarded.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart