Sentence examples for a restrained voice from inspiring English sources

It is a restrained voice, a quiet music.

In a restrained voice Ms. Kitamura offers echoes of J. M. Coetzee's "Disgrace," coolly chronicling the family's undoing as it tracks against the political turmoil ripping through the nation.

Receiving what seems to be more screen time than any interviewee, Mr. Simon makes at once a fine, friendly narrative guide; a restrained voice of moral outrage; and, as the movie builds to its sweeping conclusions, a conspicuous stand-in for Mr. Jarecki.

And he declined to take action in Syria after losing a congressional vote and has been a restrained voice about police shootings, even as protests roiled, arguing that it was important for him to allow the judicial system to do its work.

Mr. Wilson seemed a bit abashed about the vitriol, but he said a more restrained voice would be lost in the political cacophony.

Schumann's Drei Fantasiestücke and Adagio and Allegro were the robust openers, while Shostakovich's Sonata in D minor seemed somehow less arresting, perhaps simply because the piece itself was a relatively restrained voice in intense, colorful company.

In The Executioner's Song, Mailer uses a simple, restrained voice that modulates slightly according to the character whose personality he is trying to capture while writing in close third person.

Mr. Giuliani, speaking in a calm, almost restrained voice, offered condolences to the Dorismond family and later said the shooting was a tragedy for all involved.

Feist sang this verse in a restrained head voice, and then opened up, back in her chest voice, for the three syllables of the title words, which she repeated twice.

And speaking in the restrained voice of government, the agency warns, in particular, that bonuses now being offered as a lure by many variable annuity companies "may not be in your best interest".

In the restrained voice-over that wends through the film, Lopez gives witness to what he has seen.