Sentence examples for restrained enough from inspiring English sources

The funny thing was, the Learyites hadn't been restrained enough.

A spicy, salty Cajun coating was just restrained enough to complement a fine piece of tuna rather than overwhelm it.

Greg T. Parente's direction keeps the humor restrained enough that the lovely, subtle conclusion doesn't seem out of place.

Whoever mixed the flavours was restrained enough with the sugar that it has kept a satisfyingly bitter edge.

The atmosphere runs restrained enough so that any outburst — as in the latter half of "Be Brave," with its martial cadence — lands hard.

But the three women responsible — for both the show and the movie — seemed restrained enough as they sat down to what one of them called "a proper English tea" on Central Park South last month.

Speaking of cyclical references, we've restrained ourselves long enough, let's talk about Stamm's majestic haircut.

Timberlake is an ingenious and boundlessly winning performer — and it was no surprise that his showy falsetto, restrained here just enough to remain sincere, was a natural fit for the high parts of one of the Possum's signature songs.

Timberlake is an ingenious and boundlessly winning performer and it was no surprise that his showy falsetto, restrained here just enough to remain sincere, was a natural fit for the high parts of one of the Possum's signature songs.

According to him, on both versions Dion "embraces a particularly restrained performance – dramatic enough to steer the track's emotion, but still delicate to offer comfort".

A "soft landing" refers to the effort of policy makers, so far fairly successful, to restrain the economy enough to keep inflation under control without tipping the economy into a recession.