Sentence examples for petty restraints from inspiring English sources
Cricket writer R. C. Robertson-Glasgow said: "With him there was no sharpnesses, no petty restraints, no mathematical cricket.
Exercise a little restraint.
He urged police officers to "exercise restraint and not to react to petty provocations".
While the police officers on duty the day of Patrick M. Dorismond's funeral indeed showed restraint, Mr. Giuliani has not shown such restraint in his zeal to paint Mr. Dorismond as a petty hoodlum.
In a special Imagist issue of The Egoist magazine in May 1915, the poet and critic Harold Monro called H.D.'s early work "petty poetry", denoting "either poverty of imagination or needlessly excessive restraint".
She also has the restraint and fortitude to endure 10 people's harping on the petty hurts and resentments, the drudgery of punctured hopes and accumulated disappointment, the miscommunications and fumbled makings up, and the inevitable tussles over laundry, without walloping anyone on the head or, worse, falling asleep.
