Sentence examples for constraining himself from inspiring English sources

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

But I suspect Englander might have pulled it off if he hadn't constrained himself so tightly within the terms of Carver's scrupulous realism.

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.

"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.

But if Syria cheats, the president will find himself constrained from acting.

If Russia's economy continues to weaken, Mr Putin may yet find himself constrained.

"Mr. Sands does not impress the court as a person who considers himself constrained by trespass laws," the judge wrote.

There is real emotional outrage here, and Peter Mullan thankfully nowhere feels himself constrained by delicacy, hushed respect or genteel good taste.