All 17 Uses of
content
in
The Fountainhead
- But instead, they were talking suddenly of their old Stanton days together, and he was laughing, holding her across his knees, her thin shoulders leaning against the circle of his arm, her eyes soft, contented.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- And Keating thought suddenly that Francon did not really believe it and knew that Keating did not believe it, and yet they were both contented, bound tighter together by a common method and a common guilt.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)
- He would lie in bed and watch, with contentment, through the open window, Roark's figure moving among the bare trees that stood against a pale blue sky.†
Chpt 1.14 (definition 1)
- He held her in his arms and she whispered radiant plans for their future; he glanced at her with contentment; he did not hear her words; he was thinking of how it would look if they were photographed like this together and in how many papers it would be syndicated.†
Chpt 1.15 (definition 1)
- Keating listened in thick contentment.†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 1) *
- She instructed the maid how to hang up her clothes, she asked him to help her rearrange the contents of the closets.†
Chpt 2.15 (definition 1)
- He thought of how convincingly he could describe this scene to friends and make them envy the fullness of his contentment.†
Chpt 3.2 (definition 1)
- He looked at the three pairs of eyes; they were blurred, but they turned upon him occasionally with contentment.†
Chpt 3.5 (definition 1)
- I'll have no purpose save to keep you contented.†
Chpt 4.14 (definition 1)
- Wynand did not read the contents of the Banner.†
Chpt 4.17 (definition 1)
- It was an earnest occupation, giving her full contentment.†
Chpt 4.17 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- She felt content in a strange detachment, alone with the words she kept repeating to herself.†
Chpt 2.2 (definition 2) *
- Though how in hell one passes judgment on a man without considering the content of his brain is more than I'll ever understand.†
Chpt 2.10 (definition 2)
- She felt slack and empty, losing her identity in a painless ebb, content to vanish and let nothing remain defined save that particular earth in the window.†
Chpt 3.5 (definition 2)
- He was content to sit silently, when she preferred, and look at her as he looked at the objects in his art gallery, with the same distant, undisturbing glance.†
Chpt 3.8 (definition 2)
- They would be in a room together in the evening, saying nothing, content to feel each other's presence.†
Chpt 3.9 (definition 2)
- …them, down the snow or the grass of the hillsides, over the boulders and the piled planks, to the drafting tables, to the derricks, to the tops of rising walls—the man who had made this possible—the thought in the mind of that man—and not the content of that thought, nor the result, not the vision that had created Monadnock Valley, nor the will that had made it real—but the method of his thought, the rule of its function—the method and rule which were not like those of the world beyond…†
Chpt 4.1 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.