Sentence examples for constrained himself to from inspiring English sources

Rather, I was shocked — that the director of "American Graffiti" could have constrained himself to create such a turgid, stilted, flat, and textureless movie.

Had Mr Eugenides constrained himself to the tale of a pseudohermaphrodite (genetically of one sex but with ambiguously developed genitals), his novel might at least have shed some light on the psychology of gender.

Until this point, Dr. Lloyd had been constraining himself to a laptop with a volume of one liter.

"What do you think?" I'd always felt that he had constrained himself too much to the local scene, that the rest of Nigeria could benefit from a taste of the valor he had to offer.

The author, thus, clearly did not want to constrain himself in terms of ideas and topics discussed, which is also evident from the many and broad aims of the book.

He himself admits that such a treatise is almost universally neglected by philosophers, and feels himself constrained to justify such a study, which he undertakes with an almost inevitable admixture of religious and theological elements.

Bush was constrained to take exception to this publicly.

In "To Change the Church," one sometimes senses a barely constrained wish to apply the H-word to Francis himself — a wish suppressed only, perhaps, by a last shred or two of institutional deference.

You're not doing Drunken Hamlet.' " There was another writing problem, in an even more formally constrained genre, that Schamus set himself to solve.

Still, Mr. Cuomo may find himself constrained in the extent to which he can run against the Albany establishment, given the 16 years his own father served as lieutenant governor and governor.

It seemed like a deal, but why was it, Eriksson asked himself, that a captain should feel constrained to bargain with a lowly enlisted man?