Sentence examples for self-contented from inspiring English sources

"Even the self-contented Bridges must see a certain irony in all of this," Mariani observes.

Ben is more or less engaged to the local beauty, Mabel McKenzie (an amusingly self-contented Virginia Gilmore), and is ready to settle down.

Nothing gets done when you're a self-contented shit surrounded by your acolytes and your ghost mates.

The third priority is self-happiness or self-contented, and the fourth placing is being rich.

Poppy is single, contented, self-possessed and enjoys happy relationships with friends.

Instead of a self-reliant and contented plumber or electrician, that Ford Transit or Citroen Relay is probably being driven by an exhausted and exploited zero-hours worker.

Better to have set of contented, self-satisfied thieves, that a group of craftsmen smarting under newspaper criticism, determined to do better the next time.

(Ages 3 to 6) There's a moral about self-esteem in the story of Clara, a contented cabbage caterpillar who turns into a cream-colored butterfly.

The author was a troubled figure at the end of her life, and Castle, published in 1961, has in its two female lead characters what Jackson's biographer Judy Oppenheimer calls the "yin and yang of Shirley's own inner self" – "one, an explorer, a challenger, the other a contented, domestic homebody".

In the final essay, "Mowing" – essentially a rewriting of the contented-sigh passages that close Updike's memoir Self-Consciousness, with Sunday morning exchanged for Saturday, and orange juice for coffee – Baker writes that curiosity "is a way" (is a way?) "of ordering and indeed paring down the world"; but the kind of "curiosity" he displays is all too easily sated.

She's a contented person looking for a reason to be contented".