'a restrained style' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that is composed, understated, or moderate. For example, "His artwork has a restrained style with subtle details."
New wines in a restrained style are bearing some historic Napa names.
No. 3 was the Clos du Val, almost always a well-structured wine, made in a restrained style more typical of Napa 20 years ago.
Another modern artist included liberally is Robert Bevan, who often represents horses with a restrained style that is dependent on angularity, as if he thought Cubism had something, but went too far.
The two wines are made from different grapes produced in different countries from vastly different vintages (1999 in Spain saw a spring frost and autumn rains; 2003 in Italy saw a drawn-out, dry heatwave), yet both the wines offer delicate, balanced flavors in a restrained style that's a stark contrast to what's often expected of modern wines from these two countries.
"Angels" opens Coexist with a restrained style and soft-spoken verses about the idea of being in love.
Vocally, "Through the Rain" finds Carey singing in a "restrained" style for the duration of most of the song, as the first verse and chorus are sung in breathy vocals.
Clutching a copy of his own Wall Street Journal, Murdoch was dressed in a somewhat restrained style — a far cry from the odd triangles-and-shorts combinations, or the jaunty umbrella accessories, that he has used in the past.
In the last few years, though, I've noticed some zinfandel producers gravitating to a more restrained style, lighter in body and lower in alcohol.
In 1904 the firm of McKim, Mead & White was retained to finish the Fifth Avenue front, which it did in a more restrained style.
The Laughton film, directed in a calm, restrained style by Leo McCarey, is just about irresistible, even with its big scene — Laughton, an English valet in the Old West, reciting the Gettysburg Address in a saloon, as the camera pans across the awed faces of the cowhands.
Gilbert's dramatic writing during this time was evolving from his early musical burlesques to a more restrained style, as exemplified in his string of blank-verse fairy comedies.
