They provided contentment and consolation — an escape from the "black milk of my parents' silence," followed by their divorce — even if their lessons didn't always translate usefully to reality.
It's very, very much left.' (p. 9) The creation of cultural activities was associated with spiritual care because the nurses believed that entertainment provided contentment in life that residents did not naturally have as a result of their dementia.
Whether it was the right decision or not, it provides an important lesson for those of us searching for peace and contentment.
But a perfume that is a signature scent provides, it seems, a contentment and confidence — whether what is in the bottle is off the shelf or concocted just for you.
Such accessories, and the dust and the winds and the ever-calling train whistles, add up to a "home town" that is probably remembered with nostalgia by those who have left it, and that provides a sense of roots and contentment for those who have remained.
Ah no, she says with relish: contentment provides such potential for misery.
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).
Although the study will not focus on the cultural differences and the role these play on the assimilation and contentment of international students in the United States, it will provide a starting point for discussions and perhaps changes in the function of international students in the American education system.
Indeed, Bataille - a man who, it is safe to say, did not possess a knack for contentment - provides one of the novel's epigraphs: "Nor is love the desire to lose but the desire to live in fear of possible loss, with the beloved holding the lover on the very threshold of a swoon.
Valentino gave a smile of... was it deep contentment?
His successful tenure, though, unexpectedly brought with it not contentment but angst.
