contentedness

There is a better balance, a sort of permissible contentedness with however much or little you have.

Rather, the mood bears the relaxed contentedness of small town America.

And in its wake, he felt the lazy contentedness he'd expected after a big meal.

But these days, a certain contentedness has seeped in.

I lay still, absorbing the warmth, the smell, the contentedness.

And there is the same contentedness, every four months, after each summit, the same satisfaction with all this.

I counted on Sam's underlying contentedness, even when he was irritated or pressured.

In my sudden fleshly contentedness, am I sentimental and unrealistic?

I had even given up speaking to him, but by his mere existence he compromised my customary contentedness.

One disappointing thing about her style was an apparent contentedness with regular, unshaped rhythm.

Technique was never in question; the brightness even seemed to help in her expressions of ecstatic contentedness.

I think it's the contentedness.

Kate found such contentedness almost unbearably distressing.

It's hard not to link the spirit of sometimes self-indulgent innovation to the optimism and sensual contentedness of the state.

Herbert Samuel argued in 1902 "the only guarantee of an empire's unity is the contentedness of the people who compose it".

"The contentedness, the joy, is gone.

Throughout its duration, the song continually changes tempo a few bars at a time while the lyrics fondly recall love and contentedness.

The day had brought us to a state of benign contentedness, which we topped off with dinner at Hoppe's, on the water, near the Rock.

Before, I could ride around my cattle, watching the calves grow fat and shiny, seeing the contentedness of mother cows grazing green creek bottoms.

I guess contentedness is the best bellus for young folks, ef they would only think so."

Here is where families live and grow, where children are loved, where marriages play themselves out leading either to wise contentedness or persistent horror.

Her mom, a Southern Baptist, had taught Chinita contentedness and self-respect.

She felt like a cat full of cream; she wanted to smile and purr and generally make a spectacle of her contentedness.

--Laura ruminates on Dan's relentless contentedness.

I needed to know what to do with the contentedness and beauty of it all, and I needed that place to do it."