contentment
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As her friend and collaborator Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine once pointed out: "Contentment is a creativity killer."
From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025
Kartje: Contentment isn’t a state USC fans are all that accustomed to, but after three consecutive comfortable victories, there’s no reason they shouldn’t be perfectly pleased by what they’ve seen.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2022
Before 2018 passes through Modesto’s famous city arch and into history, here’s a look at some of the year’s events through its prism of “Water Wealth Contentment Health.”
From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2019
Contentment and disappointment sit so close together on the spectrum of shared experience that it can be hard to tell one from the other.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2018
Contentment would flood raging down the valley like the Salinas River in March of a thirty-inch year.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Excerpts from "To Kill a Mockingbird"
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