Sentence examples for a quiet contentment from inspiring English sources

Dangerous as a hard, early winter can be — none of us ready yet to re-enact the hard winters of the past — it is also the pretext for a quiet contentment, when you give up any ambition of going out, when nature sets its limits and you have no choice but to obey.

A couple of years ago there was a quiet contentment that England's future was safe but undoubted talents such as Eoin Morgan, James Taylor, Jonny Bairstow and, most worrying of all given his insane potential, Steven Finn, have not cracked Test cricket.

And it's not just the women who are lonely; it exists in the spaces themselves, but in their emptiness the artist illustrates a quiet contentment.

If only I could stop striving after some alternate reality, maybe I'd step off the wheel of Samsara and enjoy a quiet contentment, freed from the cycles of elation and despair.

When John Betjeman made his famous journey through the area for his 1973 BBC documentary Metro-Land, the poet found a residential community of quiet contentment, a citadel of home-ownership and hedge trimming – golf clubs, garden fetes and ladies who lunch.

After a glass of Canadian ice wine, picking a book from the shelves of the library, climbing the stairs to my bedroom and getting under the covers, with embers hissing in the fireplace, and a silvery half moon over the reflecting lake, I had a feeling of true, quiet contentment and a sense of being much farther from Montréal than I was.

When enjoying a moment of quiet contentment in the garden or having coffee with a friend, try to resist reaching for a smartphone and delivering to Twitter or Facebook an ecstatic account of what you are experiencing, particularly if it ends with the one-word sentence "Bliss".

As I looked around, it struck me that the Amber Spa Boutique Hotel hums with a sense of quiet contentment.

Lying back on the thick cushions of an armchair in his villa, with the windows curtained against an angry sun that was threatening to evaporate the Zaire River as it slid like a grassy ocean past his front door, he talked with the quiet contentment of a man whose thoughts were acting on him as comfortingly as the hands of a good masseur.

His deadbeat dad (Ethan Hawke) straightens out and stumbles arse-backwards into quiet contentment and a new family of his own.

Just the quiet contentment of a man in his element, savoring the end of the longest flight of its kind ever made — cheeks in the wind, like a bird.