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

The winds and tides, and the delay, however, made no difference with Claude, nor did it interfere in the slightest with his self-content and self-complacency.

From The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia by De Mille, James

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

She paused and bridled as she surveyed the attentive company, her manner full of self-content.

From Making People Happy by Fisher, Harrison

He had hoped to provoke from the plaisant some further expression of self-content in his plans for the future, but the other had become guarded.

From Under the Rose by Isham, Frederic Stewart