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

This was an amiable reflection and one that ministered greatly to his self-content.

From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir

When he crossed the stage to them, it was with his former air of dogged indifference and cynical self-content.

From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir

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.

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