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
As was the self-contented, and therefore uncreative and prosaic, thought of the age, which produced the novel, such the novel itself continued to be.
From An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times by Scott, Fred Newton
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
Each day to this small folk's a feast of fun; Not over-witty, self-contented, Still round and round in circle-dance they whirl, As with their tails young kittens twirl.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy
But there he sat, plump on the stool, looking as self-contented as if butter would not melt in his mouth.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
