She carries the most dramatic elements of the work, and her expressions evoke pain, regret, contentment, nostalgia, and wistfulness: whatever the second requires.
Mr. Zak says he conducted a preliminary experiment indicating that posting messages on Twitter caused the release of oxytocin, a neurotransmitter that evokes feelings of contentment and is thought to help induce a sense of positive social bonding.
Mr. Thiérrée is equally adept at evoking the purring contentment of a clan in sync with itself (there's a gorgeous sequence in which parents and child undulate in a symphony of separate, rhythmically connected dances) and the inescapable awareness that such stability is at best temporary.
In the first study, 167 participants consumed one of two novel flavoured drinks (one initially highly liked, one initially medium liked) for five consecutive days while watching film clips evoking either joy, contentment or no emotion in a between subjects design.
It used to be said that some people would have bought an album of Bob Dylan reciting the phone directory; and there were moments on Aerial when it appeared that Kate Bush was doing something comparable, trying to explore the notion of boredom and fulfilment in the least animated manner possible – as when evoking the almost autistic contentment of a mathematician obsessed by pi.
The LCS contains two factor-analyzed subscales: Contentment and Contention.
This "ecstasy of contentment" is almost hypnotically evoked, yet with a restraint highly unusual in a writer of that age.
But what Ms. Lee evoked as a wistful faraway vision of contentment, Ms. Midler makes palpably present.
A boisterous calypso from 1939 by Lord Beginner, on the other hand, evokes perhaps the most beloved sort of holiday contentment: it's called, "Christmas Morning the Rum Had Me Yawning".
Peck tries to evoke the life of the farm, and the narrative often mists over with bucolic contentment, but it becomes increasingly odd to notice how he really has no interest in rural experience.
