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

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

Her wrinkled face and care-worn look tell a different tale from the pompous self-content of the merchant by her side, who drives as hard a bargain as she does.

From Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond by Meakin, Budgett

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the peace of their self-content; There are souls, like stars, that dwell apart In a fellowless firmament.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

There is little food for self-content when all that is best and worst comes out; but there is much food for thought.

From Jock of the Bushveld by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir