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

I was really angry with O'Brien by that time, with his air of omniscience, superiority, and self-content, as if he were talking to a child or someone very credulous and weak-minded.

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

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 Isham, Frederic Stewart

These mixed feelings ruffled the bright surface of her self-content, inflated as it was by her increasing social success.

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.

Have seen Katiusha, and, because of my self-content, was unkind and angry, and departed with a feeling of oppression.

From The Awakening The Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf