Sentence examples similar to a restrained grip from inspiring English sources

Anja Kampe was a restrained and rapturous Tove, Thomas Quasthoff delivered the Speaker's lines with cartoonishly exaggerated sprechstimme, and Karen Cargill was a gripping storyteller as the Wood Dove – she had me before she even opened her mouth, that ability to hold the hall with her gaze, then her singing was burnished and supple and vivid.

She gave a restrained yawn.

"It was such a restrained show.

Aruán Ortiz is a restrained pianist.

There was a restrained guard of honour.

I smiled in a restrained way.

Strangely demure, in a restrained black Vivienne Westwood.

He's a restrained tippler these days.

It is a restrained voice, a quiet music.

Sibelius was a restrained orchestrator, a non-Wagnerian.

Interpretively she took a restrained, magisterial approach to the piece.