His heroine in "Year of the Dog" winds up embracing hers, and finding some measure of contentment.
Compared to the nervous energy of those films, Paterson is a departure, being about a couple who've found a measure of contentment.
Finally, she meets the novelist Franz Werfel, who prefers Verdi to Wagner and with whom, it seems, Alma at last finds a measure of contentment.
The run of World Series victories that the team enjoyed under Torre brought him a measure of contentment, but he resented the adulatory media coverage that Torre received, pointing out to me (and others) that before he joined the Yankees Torre had enjoyed little success as a manager.
Despite all this, at her birthday party at the end of the book, she has attained a measure of contentment: "When people began to arrive with food and presents, it seemed the ultimate miracle, to have good people love you, freaked-out, self-centered mess that you were".
Fortunately, wealth is not a perfect measure of contentment.
For all the cultural unease his writing taps into, Pierre seems to have finally found a measure of personal contentment in Leitrim.
In the last act, sobriety brings a measure of mature contentment, drawn from carefully nurtured relationships (with parents and children, the new wife and the old band), and perhaps even more from the abiding pleasure of the groove.
As George Goodwin shows in a sensitive, finely textured and moving account of Franklin's years in London, he enjoyed a very generous measure of domestic contentment in the imperial capital over the course of nearly two decades (with one brief interruption in 1762-64).
The evaluation aimed to measure different levels of contentment as well as confidence.
