'restrained crowd' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of people who are calm, controlled, or limited in their actions or behavior. Example: Despite the tense situation, the protesters remained a restrained crowd, respecting the police barriers and refraining from violent acts.
THE contrast is so New York: on one block on a recent sunny Saturday, restrained crowds of grown-ups in dark glasses waited for outdoor tables at Pastis, a hot see-and-be-seen restaurant in the ultra-hip Gansevoort Market meatpacking district.
This comment drew a burst of applause from an otherwise restrained audience crowded into an auditorium in Peshawar, which is near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, and is home to one million Afghans.
It is, in short, the barely restrained energies of the crowd, and the noise and the blur of the traffic, and the huckstering along the sidewalk, that save Times Square from the Disneyesque.
And all too often, those issues bring restrained applause from their crowds.
Some art critics have been more restrained than the delighted crowds.
On the plus side, he was greeted with restrained appreciation by an overflow crowd of 8,255 (171 short of a ballpark record) and, in summary analysis, said: "I had a blast out there".
The capacity crowd sat, noisily happy but restrained, on metal and vinyl chairs.
The London crowd are a bit more restrained - but when Gasolina, by Puerto Rico's international star rapper Daddy Yankee, is played, the dancefloor explodes.
"He failed to tell you the truth," Mr. Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, said to a crowd that greeted him with restrained applause.
Mr. Giuliani yesterday ardently dismissed his critics and praised the police for having handled the funeral crowds in "a professional and restrained way".
