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.
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).
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.
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.
It is the cynic who actually lives more lightly, unburdened by the pressure to always have more, not relying on purchases to provide happiness and contentment.
His engagement to Erica Stoll, a serene presence in any environment, has provided stability and contentment that is abundantly clear even upon passing glance.
Authors, podcasters and filmmakers Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus once had lucrative, corporate careers which they thought would provide them with contentment.
To crave after the next and the next and the next thing, as if some amount of possessions will somehow provide us with contentment.
He was robbed of the crusading bitterness that once animated him, and had become a case study of the memory-erasing contentment that capitalism provides.
