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New York magazine described him as "notoriously disciplined" and "dedicated to a self-control and self-containedness that can come off as coolness".

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

I have often been struck by the self-containedness of the family lives of most of the Americans I have met.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will also express this self-containedness of nature by saying that nature is closed to mind.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North

His mind was full of that intense spiritual life of Catherine's which in its wonderful self-containedness and strength was always a marvel, sometimes a reproach, to him.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.