Sentence examples for on contentment from inspiring English sources

Ever more diluted versions of social democracy based on contentment with one's lot and the odd friendly word with a neighbour is no substitute for the bold and imaginative tax and spend policies that are urgently needed in the areas of youth unemployment, house-building and social care, if growing levels of social inequality and division are to be reversed.

But children has no effect on contentment: childless couples rank the same as those with one, two, three, four or five or more children.Londoners are more stressed than people living elsewhere in Britain, which could be due to the relatively small proportion of elderly people who live in the capital compared to its working age population or to the capital's high unemployment levels.

Kensett never built his own house on Contentment Island.

In 1999, John Cassidy reviewed Robert Frank's "Luxury Fever" and David Lykken's "Happiness" and considered recent scientific studies on contentment.

"The nine acres he bought on Contentment Island, which included Fish Island and adjacent oyster beds, were a retreat for Kensett," Ms. Smith said.

During the last years of his life he spent much of his time on Contentment Island on Long Island Sound near Darien.

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.

On several mornings I noticed a nice-looking man sitting on a bench, the one that has the best view, deep inside the garden, a quiet smile of contentment on his round face.

The thought of a human bond, but not mere monetary gain, was the source of contentment on display.

He closed his eyes against the afternoon spring sun, a look of contentment on his face, and a slight weariness, too, that perhaps came from rigorous training or from being the sleep-deprived father of an infant daughter.

We're finally open!") and the somewhat disproportionate expressions of contentment on the face of patrons — not to mention investors — when the Munson finally reopened to big crowds last week, a lesson in comfort food, diner lore and other themes that could have been explored had anyone been nuts enough to greenlight the reality show.