We weren't going to be able to contain ourselves.
"We can barely contain ourselves," said Mr. Otto, the chief executive of a medical-equipment company whose father was an early Nascar promoter.
My brother and I, barely able to contain ourselves, would shake our parents awake at an ungodly hour, making the adult world, for once, dance to the tune and time frame of childhood.
Christmas Day, for my two sisters and myself, began as early as four or five o'clock in the morning, when we could no longer contain ourselves and would fall upon the Christmas stockings, seemingly made for giants, bulging with nuts, chocolates, fruits, and a panoply of presents.
Some friends and I could hardly contain ourselves when we visited a $2.5 million, one-bedroom town house that had a mahogany paneled bathroom and a jungle-canopy bed. 4 p.m. 5) TIME TO REMEMBER The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin's senior thesis project, looks best late in the day, when the sunlight doesn't shine as fiercely on the harsh, black granite.
When we first learned that our 18-year-old daughter was accepted at Johns Hopkins University for the fall of 2009, my wife and I couldn't contain ourselves and wound up jumping up and down on the living room carpet and yelling.
Alex and I can't contain ourselves.
Somehow, we are no longer able to contain ourselves.
Fashion's Night Out 2012 is only 15 days away and we can hardly contain ourselves.
But that second choice requires the ability to stand upright and contain ourselves.
