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 Englishman, armed in his panoply of self-content, and grasping facts with unequalled tenacity, goes on trampling upon acuter sensibilities, but somehow shouldering his way successfully through the troubles of the universe.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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
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)
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.
