Sentence examples for architectural restraint from inspiring English sources

While Tubbs created Baden-Powell House in the modern architectural style of Le Corbusier, he used more architectural restraint in his own design choices.

The idea -- for an enclave of architectural gems that show some restraint in a woodsy subdivision several miles from the beach -- originated with a longtime friend of Mr. Meier's, Harry J. Brown Jr., a onetime Hollywood screenwriter, novelist and Broadway producer who made millions speculating in Beverly Hills real estate.

Sherrill Hall is worth saving and restoring as a New York City architectural landmark -- and as a symbol of a time when modesty, restraint and thrift were values that were lived and preached by both our secular and religious leaders.

The structural and decorative units that delineate the architectural surface of the walls of the Old Sacristy and of the basilica proper are of particular elegance and restraint characteristic of Brunelleschi's work at this time.

Even the baroque architectural elements, say a tooled belt or a curlicue pattern edging print on a midnight blue sheath dress, were done with restraint.

One is the abandon with which foreign influences are seized upon without the restraints of context or tradition: in this sense, Tokyo's mix of culinary styles mirrors the queasy architectural stew (mock-Tudor, Georgian, post-modernist) of the capital's shoddy buildings.

Architectural illustration.

"Prior restraint.

"Intense restraint".

Fiscal restraint.

Or restraint.