I was very English, polite and restrained.
He was both polite and restrained.
If New York is going to get the help it needs, its leaders are going to have to be both restrained and politically canny in what they ask for.
His victory, following the restrained and politically unadventurous State of the Union speech on Tuesday night by President Bush, left the impression of a party on the defensive as it surveys the inhospitable electoral terrain.
The children of the 1960's, who rebelled so dramatically against their own parents, receive their comeuppance when their children turn out to be materialistic, politically conservative and sexually restrained.
Moreover, political concerns may be over-wrought: restrained reaction has often proved to be entirely acceptable politically.Gulliver has always argued that many post-9/11 "innovations" in homeland security are not worth their cost.
As for the HLP, the diversity and sheer complexity of the many issues they are expected to address could lead, at one extreme, to a restrained focus on clearly achievable, and therefore politically acceptable, specific goals, or, at the other extreme, to ambitious all-encompassing goals that are impossible to deliver because they are the responsibility of everyone (and therefore of no-one).
In opposition both to the intensely personal, confessional tone of much of the work of Truffaut and to the politically provocative films of Godard, Mr. Rohmer remained true to a restrained, rationalist aesthetic, close to the principles of the 18th-century thinkers whose words he frequently cited in his movies.
Hezbollah has so far been extremely restrained in its attitudes on the ground in Lebanon, while strongly supporting the Assad regime politically.
Investment plans remain surprisingly restrained.
Other parents are less restrained.
