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

In some cases, perhaps, it might be urged that Pepin has remained the more self-contented because he has not written everything he believed himself capable of.

From Impressions of Theophrastus Such by Eliot, George

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

She seems to have been largely unconscious of her declension; self-occupied and self-contented, she scarcely noticed His absence; she was resting, resting alone,—never asking where He had gone, or how He was employed.

From Union And Communion or Thoughts on the Song of Solomon by Taylor, James Hudson

As was the self-contented, and therefore uncreative and prosaic, thought of the age, which produced the novel, such the novel itself continued to be.

From An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times by Scott, Fred Newton