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

His only expression was that of haughty self-content; but there was no real pride in his bearing, and no reserve.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

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

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

Already she was beginning to commend herself inwardly for her loyalty to her work, and Emma’s blunt arraignment of the dean of Overton College acted like a dash of cold water upon her half-fledged self-content.

From Grace Harlowe's Problem by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]