Sentence examples for contained like a from inspiring English sources

Obama's diction is clipped and contained like a member of the Anglo-Saxon establishment, but his cadences come from the African-American church.

"From the hairdo we learn that she is composed and contained; like an armadillo or a turtle, she carries built-in protection," he writes.

If it has not been cancelled or refuted by the nightmarish doubt, does it now contain, like a trapped smell, the ghost of its opposite?

He originally chose everything in it – including his personal collection of works by such artists as Degas, Cézanne and Henri Rousseau – and it contains, like a magical cabinet, the ceaseless energy of his life and art.

"It's sort of this president that you're always trying to contain, like a wildfire that's moving from one place to the other at all times".

It's not contained like in a piece of beef that's a whole muscle.

The grid's density varies and its gauge compresses towards the top to give a sense of contained energy, like a compressed spring.

Its meaning contains (vessel-like) a well-wrought urn, a far-­sailing ship, a throbbing vein.

The M-LUR contains an A-like subregion showing a pD of 0.362 ± 0.032 from A1 and A2 (Table 6), indicated as A".

In other works the boxes contain child-like "signs" – a fish, a clock, a face, a wheel, a boat, the sun.

One wall contained a large opening, like a doorway, with a pointed arch at the top.