Sentence examples for quiet restraint from inspiring English sources

Except, perhaps, for one major industry, which has shown quiet restraint: financial services companies.

Siza's architecture is one of quiet, restraint, patience and gentle melancholy.

Once the game was under way, though, Favre put on his headset and embraced an unfamiliar demeanor: one of quiet restraint.

In a city that celebrated the repeal with "quiet restraint," in the language of the newspapers of the day, the legacy was acknowledged quietly.

Chambers is the fashion director of British Vogue and is all quiet restraint, with a soft voice and a nice line in gentle understatement.

There's comfort, I find, in the methods employed in the world of Chandler's detective, Philip Marlowe -- careful observation, an incisive way with words, quiet restraint in the face of deceitful and irredeemable acts.

Lancashire was unsurprisingly fine, embodying the alternately browbeaten and stoic Angela with a quiet and compelling restraint, while always looking the part of a mother wrongly accused of the murder of two of her children, but Timothy Spall, as her husband, Terry, occasionally threatened to steal their shared scenes, if not the whole film.

CHRISTMAS, let's face it, is not really the time for restraint or quiet taste.

The contest is "Middle European restraint and quiet meticulousness versus Iberian bravado and passion".

A choreographer and dancer who brims with restraint and quiet luminosity, Jeffrey Bauer will present an evening-long solo called "XXX Buddha," in which a guru tours New York City.

The music swells and recedes accordingly as rocky outbursts give way to moments of injured restraint, or quiet defiance breaks into lovelorn gales.