Watching the president grimace his way through the restrained back-and-forth reminded me of a conversation I recently had with a friend in Democratic politics, who posited that Mr. Obama simply doesn't love being president.
"Scare dinkum – Aussies caught by the ghoulies at 'haunted' hotel," squealed a predictably-restrained back-page headline in the Sun after the 2005 incident.
Then the Third — shorter, just as melodic, and yet more restrained, held back, moving in a new direction.
He is consequently unwilling to speculate on the drivers that might make a pin-up out of Noel Fielding, though he does point out, in a restrained way, "Back in the Pleistocene, Bill Gates may not have been as successful as he is now".
"These kids who are 19, 20 years old, they get it, they understand it and love the way it's restrained and stripped-back," Robson-Scott says.
My parents are very Australian, in that sense: very restrained and laid-back, I suppose.
Unlike her live sets — battering, bludgeoning affairs that rarely, if ever, let up for breath — Fabric 34 keeps things stripped back, restrained and, dare we say it, minimal.
One shows a Bradley fighting vehicle backing toward restrained detainees to frighten them.
Her alleged crime was to have received an elated hug (a restrained pat on the back, she says) from a French paraglider after the pair completed a glide together in Paris.
Many Americans go to Puerto Rico for salsa lessons; a few European operators now market it too.Colombia and Venezuela share an elegantly restrained style, with much back-stepping, smaller hand-movements and little use of the elaborate, arm-tangling moves beloved of Cuban dancers.
