Sentence examples for restrained and it from inspiring English sources

"This is a little more restrained, and it sounds like a great beat group at the height of their powers.

The mauling they received was neither pretty nor restrained and it came at the hands of an Australian team who had not won a Test match in nine since the New Year, so the words of the team victory song may have been forgotten.

I try not to listen to him on the radio: he sounds so professional and oddly restrained, and it's strange hearing him being polite and not telling filthy jokes.

"The antitrust process made Microsoft more restrained, and it did change the company's culture".

Kristen Stewart's apology to her boyfriend Robert Pattinson for cheating on him with director Rupert Sanders has quickly become a model for the modern-day celebrity apology: it was brief, it was restrained and it was issued on the People website.

Officers said Wilford continued to resist being restrained and it took both officers to get both arms behind him to get him in handcuffs.

Flandez said it was a "terrific performance", though Benigno was more restrained, and gave it a "B+" despite there being "less innovation" in the a cappella "gimmick", and noted that "the barbershop-quartet finish is actually pretty good".

But if Clayton's film was a little too restrained and sensitive, it is the sheer size, overstatement and noise, both visually and aurally, that sinks Luhrmann's picture.

But even when apart, or especially when apart, Oyelowo and Pike have chemistry, a rather British chemistry – their relationship convinces, perhaps just because of how restrained and decorous it mostly is.

She sings in a restrained monotone, and it isn't clear if she's dismissing the song, or you, or the very idea of satisfaction.

The movie is flamboyantly sumptuous, where Wharton's repeated point, in her fiction and autobiography both, about the society in which she was raised was how relatively restrained and even Spartan it was — the prudent, conformist descendants of Dutch and English merchants entertaining each other at quiet dinners.