Sentence examples for describe contentment from inspiring English sources

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Kant considered critical conscience to be an internal court in which our thoughts accuse or excuse one another; he acknowledged that morally mature people do often describe contentment or peace in the soul after following conscience to perform a duty, but argued that for such acts to produce virtue their primary motivation should simply be duty, not expectation of any such bliss.

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One nursing assistant described her contentment with her role facilitating cooking groups: I'm quite happy with my job, being a nursing assistant and I even got a chance to go and do my training, I said I didn't want to.

Or at least that's why they think, 'Thank heaven for death.' " "How would you describe your level of contentment?" He muses on the question for a moment.

Some participants describe how the impact of contentment affected both their life at work and in the home environment in a very positive way.

Its standout single was "Jungle Drum," a yawp of contentment that uses its title phrase to describe the hopeful leap of her heart.

We cannot accurately, he claims, describe ourselves as "happy" because that implies some longer lasting state of contentment.

"Luke Donald Disease," the headline said, with an article that described a state of contentment among certain players, principally Donald, with finishing in the top 10 and living as "wealthy complacent fat cats".

The feeling is described as one of contentment or satisfaction, perhaps with the way one's life as a whole is going.

A broker at Laidlaw & Company on Park Avenue, Mr. Harrington oozed contentment as he described his switch two months ago from riding the subway, even though he now pays $4 each way, compared with the subway fare of $2.25.

Yesterday Morning followed, and now there is her book about age, which is suffused by a striking contentment, even though it describes Reckord sinking further and further into illness, and her spending much time nursing.

In her cool countenance ("a quartz contentment, like a stone," as Dickinson described it), she stared right into the abyss.

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