Sentence examples for restrained compared from inspiring English sources

If the day felt restrained compared with the historic mood the last time, it reflected a more restrained moment in the life of the country.

But Madame Tien, who died in 1996, was restrained compared with the six Suharto children.

Yet all those shiny accouterments were restrained compared with the manic profusion of Oorutaichi's music.

The recent ascent of technology stocks is restrained compared with the dot-com boom.

It still feels suitably restrained compared with the kitchen-sink drama of most songs with a fairly swift BPM.

Why we like him: With its green clouds of fag smoke, Atkins's commission for this year's Frieze Film programme, Delivery to the Following Recipient Failed Permanently, is visually restrained compared with his usual experiential overload.

His sexual activity was restrained only compared with John Kennedy's.

You might have thought the Twitter tributes and the vigils and the wonky Bowie murals were a bit de trop and vulgar, but they look like the height of restrained good taste compared with, say, going out and buying Danny Mirror's I Remember Elvis Presley, a Europe-wide hit on which a rotund Dutchman in a fringed jacket did an impersonation of Presley a matter of weeks after his death in 1977.

Like the musical "Once," "Hands on a Hardbody" feels restrained and even somber compared with more typical Broadway fare that showers the audience in giddy escapism.

Nicholson plays the Joker over-the-top yet somehow restrained -- particularly when compared with subsequent scene-chewing supervillains.

The process of tissue restitution takes relatively longer time in human, but the transit amplifying population is better restrained from excessive expansion compared with murine and teleost models (Figure 5C&D).