Sentence examples for cool restraint from inspiring English sources

Even in a defiant mode, Ms. Oberlin maintained a cool restraint.

Mr. Thibaudet played with crackling vitality but also, when called for, cool restraint.

Salonen began with a fascinating performance of Brahms's Haydn Variations, displaying cool restraint, clean textures and avoiding orchestral mass.

The surface is all cool restraint, a lid that seems to suppress a multitude of seething emotions.

Mr. Maazel's cool restraint in the Ravel brought out the music's sensual allure without turning it torrid.

Amid the overheated words and overheated hamstrings at the Olympic track and field trials, Marion Jones showed cool restraint in the way she spoke and the way she ran.

Ruscha depicts the culturally hot landscape of Hollywood with an aptly cool technical restraint.

But the show's growing popularity may well owe something to his cool, modern restraint.

The touch of cool Nordic restraint in Mr. Andsnes's performance made the moments when he did shape the melodic line with extra poignancy all the more moving.

In a sign of Beijing's concern, China summoned North Korea's ambassador earlier this month to warn of threats to peace in Asia and called on all sides to exercise "cool and restraint".

Rather than luxuriating in the opportunities for display, Mr. Romanovsky highlights the contrapuntal intricacies and conveys the music's cool, mysterious Neo-Classical restraint.