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

Already she was beginning to commend herself inwardly for her loyalty to her work, and Emma’s blunt arraignment of the dean of Overton College acted like a dash of cold water upon her half-fledged self-content.

From Grace Harlowe's Problem by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

There was, to tell the truth, even a slight shade of self-content and approbation upon his handsome countenance.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

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

When he crossed the stage to them, it was with his former air of dogged indifference and cynical self-content.

From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Pemberton, Max, Sir