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
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
On the active side, the independence of mind is seen in self-enjoyment, in happiness, or self-content, where impulse and volition have attained satisfaction in equilibrium, and the soul possesses itself in fullness.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Have seen Katiusha, and, because of my self-content, was unkind and angry, and departed with a feeling of oppression.
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Purslow's apron was discarded, no longer did he come out to customers in the street; if he still rubbed one hand over the other it was in self-content.
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
