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)

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

John Waters, John the self-absorbed, With thoughts for ever inward bent, Complacent, self-contained, self-orbed, Wrapped in eternal self-content.

From The Guards Came Through and Other Poems by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"And yet I envy them for what they do not know, for what they do not see, for their self-content."

From Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles by Richardson, James H.