Sentence examples for containing emotion from inspiring English sources

She had no way of containing emotion.

Carol Ann Duffy, reviewing Williams's Selected Poems in 1989, said the early work "was intent on containing emotion within a lukewarm, apologetic, legs-crossed Englishness which seemed to find itself ironically surprised that it was writing poetry at all".

"Vicky had no self-confidence, she had no way of controlling impulsive thinking, she had no way of containing emotion, she didn't know how to deal with emotion, she couldn't communicate well with people, she wasn't assertive... the list went on and on".

Back then she reminded me of me, a girl who wore her heart on her sleeve and had a hard time containing emotions.

Williams's specialty is contained emotion, and that was perfect for this soul-testing dance.

The steps contain emotion enough, as well as bright spots of humour.

Stewart has said it was hearing Sam Cooke in the early 60s that most influenced his style of singing, and while the two artists differ considerably, they share a sense of barely contained emotion, a wildness that is kept just inside the lines of a song.

Raimund Hoghe's "Après-Midi" is a Cubist painting of a dance: a meditative, deliberate deconstruction and reconstruction of the famous bas-relief positions from Nijinsky's "Après-Midi d'un Faune" that eventually causes them to overlap and superimpose themselves in the mind, reverberating with meaning, history and contained emotion.

The Theory of Mind Index: Affective, was the proportion of total propositions which contained emotion terms.

Again, it was an emotional roller coaster but we contained emotions and we came out on top".

But "Triade," starkly presented on a bare, black-curtained stage, is both more minimalist and more maximalist than any of these works — as if Mr. Millepied had put a microscope on four anonymous individuals in Robbins's crowd and revealed their bursting inner lives and barely contained emotions.