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 did see my way," said Brisket, with much self-content.
From The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm by Anthony Trollope
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 Joseph Conrad
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 Leo Tolstoy, Count
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 Mrs. Alexander
