Sentence examples for able to contain himself from inspiring English sources

Mr. Finn took up the gauntlet, barely able to contain himself: he seemed about to burst.

Sabot looks like a little boy on Christmas morning, barely able to contain himself.

The Wall might still be standing at the end of today, just as he was at 11am this morning, but I can't see Sehwag being able to contain himself.

At a joint appearance in Wisconsin today, Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, the presidential nominee, seemed barely able to contain himself, mugging, morphing, making funny faces at the crowd, his antics throwing Mr. Cheney's quiet-man persona into even greater relief -- and vice versa.

The moment at which the camera cranes up, roof-high, to inspect a pullulating swarm of bodies below is like some insane twenty-first-century answer to Bruegel, although the filmmaker, unlike the painter, is scarcely able to contain himself at the spectacle of delight.

Every fiber of his being screams "I want that!" and he's barely able to contain himself.

I was barely able to contain myself".

We weren't going to be able to contain ourselves.

How Rinat was able to contain so much staggered me.

She is barely able to contain her delight.

Both onstage and off, he appears to be just barely able to contain his prodigious energy.