Sentence examples for code of restraint from inspiring English sources

And so the principle of free speech confronted American society's unwritten code of restraint on contemptuous stereotyping.

Writes Merrill Peterson (1965: 518), "Democracy [for Jefferson] was less a form of government than a principle opposed to government, a code of restraints on sovereignty whether exercised by the few or the many".

The arrival of the internet, the ubiquity of pornography and the erosion of older codes of sexual restraint means that swinging is probably more common than ever.

He also advanced this cause by sustaining an unending attack upon the repressive and, to his mind, anti-human demands of traditional Christian asceticism, especially priestly celibacy, and the moral codes of sexual restraint and bodily self-abnegation that were still central to the traditional moral teachings of the day.

Jantelagen, the Scandinavian code of humility and restraint, is strong in him.

Yasujiro Ozu's poised images convey a bitterly ironic, scathingly radical rejection of Japanese codes of self-restraint and silence.

He preached a code of ethical and dietary self-restraint and social equality.

"We can exercise a bit of restraint.

"You showed a singular lack of restraint.

This was a rare instance of restraint.

"It's lack of restraint, folks.