A "culture of contentment" has been created in which Labour supporters cannot be bothered to vote.
His laughing face became the means for a disguised political criticism — reflecting the obligatory mask of general contentment demanded in a society in which the appearance of the masses had become a state priority.
Still, if dance music chases innovation, it also embraces repetition, and this was a week in which familiarity bred contentment.
There was a flicker of fancy on "Elevator Ride" and "Walk in the Rain," ballads about elusive contentment; there was tension in "Darker Things," in which Mr. Hampton tries on a winter coat of pessimism.
In an age of "happiness indexes" and countries ranked by their supposed wellbeing, are we overlooking the transient, often trivial moments in which joy (rather than contentment) truly resides?
For this, we have ripped the natural world apart, degraded our conditions of life, surrendered our freedoms and prospects of contentment to a compulsive, atomising, joyless hedonism, in which, having consumed all else, we start to prey upon ourselves.
She'd have you think her concerns were little affairs of the heart, the minor compromises women make with love, the ways in which her characters might hold on to contentment, or find hope and satisfaction in the everyday.
Elisabeth also takes up a classically Stoic position, insofar as she objects to the way in which Descartes's account of virtue separates virtue from contentment.
Item 16 is a global rating in which respondents are asked to rate their "overall life satisfaction and contentment".
