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

An elevation of five thousand feet gives it a pleasant June weather, but life moves with a drowsy, self-contented air.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Franck, Harry Alverson

Oh, thou Casual Observer, what a dull, gross, self-contented clod art thou, who, having eyes and ears, art blind and deaf to aught but things as concrete as—thyself!

From The Amateur Gentleman by Farnol, Jeffery

So nothing was done, and the Republic, torn by divided interests and with its ruling classes lapped in self-contented comfort and luxury, was a helpless prey that seemed to invite spoliation.

From History of Holland by Edmundson, George

But probably even if he had read the poem at that time, he would have been too happy, too self-contented, too successful to realise its poignant truth.

From The Loom of Youth by Waugh, Alec