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

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

For these are necessary if for no more than as alarm clocks to awake us from our dreaming self-content.

From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)

As Dick climbed in beside her, she bent her head to Lestrange; if she had regretted her impulsive confidence, again the clear sanity and calm of the gray eyes she encountered established self-content.

From The Flying Mercury by Frederick, Edmund

And vanity torn out by the roots—a megalomaniac egotism done away by a capital operation—a life-long self-content, an ingrown selfishness, all wrenched out at once—that sort of thing takes its toll in the doing.

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson