We sense her struggle to keep her self-control.
In the shadows, I sensed Umm Ghaida lose her self-control.
Post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury can increase a person's anger and hostility and diminish his or her self-control.
I'm astounded how fast and how effectively Bea taught me everything I know, though I never could match her self-control.
As this matron on the loose, Allen is rancorously funny — the sheer pleasure of telling people off bursts through her self-control.
Lambert said she was "deeply and wholeheartedly regretful" for losing her self-control during the Mountain West Conference tournament semifinal match.
In a real crisis, Sue was calm, but her self-control disintegrated rapidly when she was faced with smaller domestic challenges such as diapers or head lice.
On October 23rd she spoke on the phone to Barack Obama, America's president, in a tone that for a woman of her self-control passes for anger.
Her self-control began to abandon her, however, as one by one not guilty verdicts were read for murder and abuse of a child.
But her self-control in always managing to keep herself down to two Cheestrings in any one four-hour period has been exemplary.
