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

It may, however, be pointed out that in so far as an object is cognized by the mind, it becomes in a sense part of the complex self-content.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

"Hearty," that is what they are; it is the good side of their self-content.

From Irish Books and Irish People by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

Sally indolent, Sally dreaming her own small and rather selfish dreams, or a Sally self-assured and self-content were not unfamiliar figures to her world.

From The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor by Vandercook, Margaret

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament.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 Evans, William