Sentence examples for is abstemious from inspiring English sources
adjective
Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Unlike Dickens, Simenon is abstemious.
Certainly a highly intelligent edifice that is abstemious in its energy consumption can be designed and built right now.
It's the best Joan movie ever made....Rivette's movie is realistic, without Dreyer's cry party; it is abstemious, without Bresson's coldness.
McCain, Lizza reports, fuels the Straight Talk Express with Dunkin' Donuts and Coke; on the other end of the spectrum, fellow-Republican candidate Mitt Romney is abstemious in all things, including what he eats.
Now, in collaboration with the playwright Alfred Uhry, Clarke has made another show about sex, "Angel Reapers" — it débuted at the Joyce this week and runs through December 11th — but this one is abstemious.
In his paintings, the louche sexual glamour of penny dreadfuls and the temptations of booze and junk food are palpable only the more so, nostalgically, now that the artist is abstemious.
He was abstemious, but also a dandy.
He dressed simply and was abstemious and a vegetarian.
After being abstemious for so long, I was drunk in no time.
Bishop Mosley writes that he was quoted incorrectly as saying, "Christians...have never been abstemious".
But if stricter Asians were the explanation, northern cities like Bradford would also be abstemious.
