Sentence examples for instead of restrained from inspiring English sources
The surprise was the fact that Alma was such a natural hit, fun where the previous restaurant had been severe, loud instead of restrained, and a place to eat instead of a temple of cuisine.
He emphasises Galileo's earthiness instead of restrained scientific dignity, but that's a reasonable interpretation.
"Jeff Koons talks about a non-aristocratic luxury, a grass-roots proletarian luxury that's pleasing and excessive instead of minimal and tastefully restrained". Another Koonsian moment: the living room rug is a crocheted sendup of a bearskin rug.
Instead of adopting a "more restrained and level-headed policy," as the Israeli newspaper Haaretz counseled, Israel swallowed the bait of the terrorist groups that wanted nothing more than for it to react with massive force and propel the region into chaos.
But by taking the political path of least resistance -- by condemning the Iraq war as unwinnable instead of inherently wrong -- more restrained foes of the war helped to prolong the occupation that has inflicted and catalyzed so much carnage.
They must have known on some level that this wasn't right, but instead of admitting it, there was a restrained crossness about them.
Semi-rigid steel frames are often considered a cost-effective alternative to conventional fully rigid steel frames, because they use the economical partially restrained (PR) connections instead of the costly moment connections while performing satisfactorily under seismic loads.
The Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) for assessment of restrained, emotional, and external eating behavior.
Ms. Gray writes of these transgressions with a tone of restrained forgiveness.
Open image in new window Fig. 6 Conceptual diagram of restrained tensile strain.
