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

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

I was really angry with O'Brien by that time, with his air of omniscience, superiority, and self-content, as if he were talking to a child or someone very credulous and weak-minded.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

Meantime, Van Vernet, in a state of exceeding self-content, was perfecting his latest plan.

From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lynch, Lawrence L.

There is little food for self-content when all that is best and worst comes out; but there is much food for thought.

From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir