It is a famous essay in formal restraint, admired by Mies van der Rohe and the Modernists.
Though she was to form passionate attachments all her life, she kept them under rigid formal restraint.
Yet some formal restraint on executive pay seems unavoidable, even sensible, some finance experts and economists said.
The call for Less was not only a call to embrace formal restraint, but also the desire to make architecture a sober place where life could happen in all its unpredictable unfolding.
In both pieces, a battle is being waged between a composer born to the grand outpourings of Romantic drama and yet called with equal insistence by the forces of Classical symmetry and formal restraint.
Mrs. S. has no set rules about arranging flowers, and feels that flower arranging over here has been too much affected by the formal restraint of the Japanese art.
Most western productions of The Firebird come with the designs that Diaghilev commissioned from Natalia Goncharova in 1926 – rightly so, given their tension between hot saturated colour and formal restraint.
Her writing has a austere quality to it, a formal restraint that, given the subject, makes one think of dressage, of riding crops, leather boots, of subtle motions in the saddle.
In "Drunken Angel" (1948), which Kurosawa often referred to as his breakthrough, he devised a style that somehow combined the formal restraint of traditional Japanese cinema with the irreverence and nervous energy of Hollywood movies: it looked entirely new, like nothing else Eastern or Western.
Less formal restraints have also affected the President's ability to conduct foreign policy unilaterally.
