restraint

How To Use restraint In A Sentence

• He was still very young, especially by Drow standards, but his smile had given way to an expression of restraint, and his little arms and legs had grown long and thick.
• The regulation might almost be judged in restraint of trade. Times, Sunday Times
• Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
• Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.
• Semi-structured interviews took place in a private room in the hospital ward, usually within 12 hours after each restraint event.
• There is skepticism about the impact and the unrestraint spending they're seeing out of this democratic Congress. CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2009
• But action filmmaking knows no restraint and so the plotline galumphs on to its inevitable conclusion.
• Manichaean symbols and apocalyptic scenarios are bandied about with future consequences and rhetorical restraint thrown to the winds.
• But when restraints to which he had long been accustomed and to which he yielded passive obedience were removed, and he was left in a condition of license, all the abeyant passions of his undisciplined nature were brought into prominence and antagonism with an environment where reciprocal obligations have not always found their highest expression. The American Negro: What He Was, What He Is, and What He May Become: A Critical and Practical Discussion
• Pretty good, Miss Green, the advisor called out with her usual restraint, hands on the hips of her gray sweats, her expression thoughtful A compact woman with frizzy brown hair and a somewhat plain face, Miss Green had a husky voice that always sounded as if she had laryngitis. The Second Evil