There was an expression of intense but quiet satisfaction on his face.

He sat for a moment, a look of quiet satisfaction on his face, contemplating the finished page.

Judy could hear the quiet satisfaction in her friend's voice.

He felt a quiet satisfaction, almost certain that his earlier suspicions had been right.

Julius looked around at his council with a quiet satisfaction.

I noted his use of her given name, the first time I'd heard him do so, with quiet satisfaction.

I sensed a quiet satisfaction from her: she thought it had gone well.

But her new one, she noted with quiet satisfaction, "is going very well indeed."

The man's professional career could also be seen as a failure, though it gives him quiet satisfaction.

The older man gazed on his son with quiet satisfaction.