I was going flat out and lost my self-control.
I still wanted to talk to her, and my self-control was dwindling.
"'Talk it over with who?' I said, ungrammatically, crossly, teetering on the edge of my self-control".
Then I started feeling twitchy and it took all my self-control not to start checking email and Twitter.
But it is hard for me to maintain my self-control, and I worry I will bend students to my authority".
It took all my self-control to refrain from announcing to the hundreds of passers-by, "MY DAUGHTER DESIGNED THIS DRESS!" because she would have been embarrassed by the attention.
It's taken all of my self-control to resist watching the preview reel of next week's episode, so that we might all go through these difficult few weeks together.
Questioned by his barrister, Ben Cooper, Love – who suffers from eczema, Asperger syndrome, depression and psychosis – told the court: "Sadly, what I expect [in an American prison are] the urges, the depression, the helplessness … I will exercise what remains of my self-control and I will take my life.
"It took every bit of my self-control not to react visibly.
Instead of working to exercise my self-control, as I used to do, I abandon my self-control and try to find ingenious ways to make a resolution easier to keep.
There was a day where I sat about six feet from a tray of unmonitored breakfast potatoes, and it took more of my self-control than I'd like to admit to stay away from them.
