Here, then, was the status quo ante on Labor Day, which traditionally is when people start paying attention to the mayoral campaign: a general expectation of prosperity and calm, a crisis mayoralty that had played itself out, perhaps a widening gulf between satisfied middle-class voters and dissatisfied poor and working-class ones.
How is a satisfied middle-aged runner to interpret a study like that?
In a burst of ambition, it mounted a historical spectacle set in late-nineteenth-century Paris, "The Life of Emile Zola," starring Paul Muni. "Zola" is meant to be a stirring man-of-conscience movie: after early struggles, followed by huge success, the writer, in self-satisfied middle age, gets drawn, with increasing fury, into the Dreyfus affair.
Pontifex family, fictional characters, several generations of a self-satisfied middle-class English family in The Way of All Flesh, an autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that was published in 1903, the year after his death.
Racism against blacks depends, in some part, on Asian complicity, as much as it relies (to paraphrase the writer Frank Guan) on the willingness of self-satisfied middle-class white liberals to pass the buck to "white trash".
This is not to say that Ms. Holofcener, an acute observer of the manners and morals of the self-satisfied metropolitan middle class, West Coast division, is decorous or genteel.
Coolness was something he left to others, while he satisfied Middle America's taste for what he calls "better music".
The satisfied interval is the middle interval having the lower and upper limit values (S0 and S1, respectively) as defined in Eqs.
In each wedge, place a small dot to indicate your satisfaction in that area (e.g., if you are moderately satisfied, place your dot in the middle between the center and the edge).
A subject was considered dissatisfied with his or her environment if his or her overall score was negative, middle group (neither satisfied nor dissatisfied) if the overall score was null and satisfied if the overall score was positive.
He jokes: "I now identify less with happy-go-lucky Pete and more with David, the self-satisfied management consultant who has embraced middle age!" But middle age has not stopped his creative juices flowing.
