Sentence examples for a note of restraint from inspiring English sources

Even those whose shopping bags were full seemed to strike a note of restraint.

She said she was happy with how the portfolio did last year, but struck a note of restraint, adding "there are areas where we need to be more muted in our expectations".

Instead, Ms. Dalayman has soared from depths of listless despair to supercharged rapture with an eloquence all the greater for a note of noble restraint.

Only Michelle Rabbani, as an island beauty, strikes the right note of restraint, even for a story so farcical.

This note of restraint is incongruous with the rest of the Stand Your Ground provisions.

Characterized by brevity, self-contained plots that end on a note of irony, a literate and facile style, restraint of emotion, and objective rather than subjective presentation, these tales were a major stimulant to the development of the modern short story in Germany.

A note of humility?

That this quite literally vital issue got short shrift is unfortunate, because in counterbalance to the general push toward the world police role Bush advocated, one panel introduced a welcome note of realism and restraint.

"We can exercise a bit of restraint.

This is a question of restraint.

It is partly a question of restraint.