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
There is little food for self-content when all that is best and worst comes out; but there is much food for thought.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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 Frederic Stewart Isham
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament.
From The Shepherd Psalm A Meditation by William Evans
