self-contented

Example Sentences

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The writing can’t get far enough out in front of the Holocaust not to drown in a self-contented sense of romance.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2020

The home in Camberwell into which the boy Robert was born reflected the serene, harmonious, self-contented character of his parents.

From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

From Flatland: a romance of many dimensions by Abbott, Edwin Abbott

Harry he had seen, and Harry had been happy, in high spirits, quite self-contented, until that untoward telegram eclipsed his gaiety.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

Is it to be the life of an indolent heir, fat-witted and self-contented, Dwelling at ease in the house that others have builded, Boasting about the country for which he has done nothing?

From The Poems of Henry Van Dyke by Van Dyke, Henry