Sentence examples for lost all restraint from inspiring English sources
Always sharp-tongued, Luther now lost all restraint, writing in a treatise that Pope Paul III was a sodomite and a transvestite — no surprise, he added, when you considered that all popes, since the beginnings of the Church, were full of devils and vomited and farted and defecated devils.
I had it now, I felt it now, and, beginning to drive, he soon gave nature such a powerful summons down to her favourite quarters, that she could no longer refuse repairing thither; all my animal spirits then rush'd mechanically to that centre of attraction, and presently, inly warmed, and stirr'd as I was beyond bearing, I lost all restraint.
They are so happy to be given something new that they tend to lose all restraint and the whole peloton knows exactly what's happening over the next few weeks.
Zi Lu, indignant, saw Kongzi and asked, 'Is it right that even the superior man should be reduced to poverty?' The Master replied, 'A superior man remains steadfast in the face of poverty; the small man, when impoverished, loses all restraint'" (Lunyu 15.2).
The killing was followed by public anger over whether this was legitimate police action or - most likely - a military execution ordered by a government which, in its anger and frustration, had lost all sense of restraint or control.
All is lost, all is lost.
At the same time, they would reinforce moderates among blacks who are threatened with losing all influence for restraint to radicals who insist there is no escape from apartheid but through ever-greater violence.
