Sentence examples for Little contentment from inspiring English sources
There's little contentment to be found in persisting in work for which you have no heart.
Nobody could accuse him of having failed to do his job, but Kostya derived little contentment from this.
I couldn't live without a little contentment in my life".
"Is that what you mean by a little contentment?" "Well it's certainly one way of turning me into a happy camper".
Ian Inglis interprets this verse as either a "rebuke" to listeners looking to the Beatles for philosophical answers, or a "frank confession" from Harrison that "his own quasi-religious search for enlightenment has brought him little contentment".
I would suggest that most rational people understand that consumption provides little sustainable contentment (for all our affluence, New Scientist places us 24th in the happiness league, behind Nigeria and El Salvador).
I look over at my sons, asleep in their clean cage, their wet little noses twitching with contentment.
Bigger than Britain, and thus considerably less crowded, its farms well tended and its towns finely preserved, the France you see flashing past the train window conveys a state of contentment very little reflected in the country's current political discourse.
He is capable of catching the essence of someone in a flashy writerly image / such as the Professor of Literature in "A Second Visit,"one of four essays on India, who wears "flagrant yellow tousers belted without tightness over a gentle little paunch bespeaking total contentment".
I confess I was at first mystified and ultimately moved by the pairing of "Somewhere That's Green," a wistful paean to mid-20th-century domestic contentment from "Little Shop of Horrors," here in a gender-switched performance by Mr. Patinkin, and "In Buddy's Eyes," from Mr. Sondheim's "Follies," in which the character of Sally sings of the emotional rewards of her not altogether happy marriage.
"I think it's very important to have a group of people who are living a life based on contentment with little, who live the example that genuine joy comes from within, from a sense of leading a life well lived".
