Sentence examples for restrained effective from inspiring English sources

When I tried it again, the glaze was a restrained, effective ambassador of saltiness and earthiness, especially when paired with the mushrooms in the dish.

Golden State played restrained, effective defense against LeBron, allowing individual defenders a varied diet of Barnes, Iguodala, Thompson, and karate kid Draymond Green to do their work, then, when necessary, descended in threes and fours on the King like a swarm of bugs.

A restrained but effective actress, she is a lovely, natural presence on stage.

When the businessman (a restrained and effective Saif Ali Khan) scuttles a big deal in Los Angeles to defend the children, he becomes stronger and more human.

Piper Alpha: Fire in the Night, an anniversary film about the world's worst offshore oil disaster, was a restrained and effective account of an event that left 167 men dead.

She was immediately much more restrained and effective when disguised as a servant boy and certainly had a fun rapport with Emily Young, who played her no-fool of a servant Lucetta with humor.

Ms. Kerr, who brought a memorably antic intensity to Christopher Durang's "Laughing Wild," provides a more restrained but equally effective portrait here, etched in sardonic mellowness.

Van der Aa's staging, and his use of the 3D effects are equally restrained, far more understated and effective here than it was in Sunken Garden, the opera he composed with novelist David Mitchell for ENO, three years ago.

It was more restrained and yet more effective than some had thought.

And on the night, the speech was indeed more restrained and finally more effective; but the over-generosity of that private performance was of the essence of the man.

When you see a penalty like that, or indeed Ionel Ganea's more restrained but no less effective effort against England, the idea of missing from the spot seems to belong to another universe, one inhabited solely by Englishman, Dutchman and Italians.