All 13 Uses of
content
in
The Iceman Cometh
- I've never known more contented men.†
Act 1 (definition 1)
- Both are sentimental, feather-brained, giggly, lazy, good-natured and reasonably contented with life.†
Act 1 (definition 1)
- If you knew how free and contented I feel now.†
Act 1 (definition 1)
- It's just that I know now from experience what a lying pipe dream can do to you—and how damned relieved and contented with yourself you feel when you're rid of it.†
Act 1 (definition 1)
- The kind of pity I feel now is after final results that will really save the poor guy, and make him contented with what he is, and quit battling himself, and find peace for the rest of his life.†
Act 2 (definition 1)
- Do you suppose I'd deliberately set out to get under everyone's skin and put myself in dutch with all my old pals, if I wasn't certain, from my own experience, that it means contentment in the end for all of you?†
Act 2 (definition 1)
- I'm drowned and contented on the bottom of a bottle.†
Act 2 (definition 1)
- And I mean it when I say I hope today will be the biggest day in your life, and in the lives of everyone here, the beginning of a new life of peace and contentment where no pipe dreams can ever nag at you again.†
Act 2 (definition 1)
- It isn't contented enough, if you have to make everyone else a pimp, too.†
Act 4 (definition 1)
- By rights you should be contented now, without a single damned hope or lying dream left to torment you!
Act 4 (definition 1) *contented = satisfied
- I've made up my mind the only way I can clear things up for you, so you'll realize how contented and carefree you ought to feel, now I've made you get rid of your pipe dreams, is to show you what a pipe dream did to me and Evelyn.†
Act 4 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- All right, take it out on me, if it makes you more content.†
Act 2 (definition 2) *
- HOPE—(looks around him in an ecstasy of bleery sentimental content) Bejees, I'm cockeyed!†
Act 4 (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.