Sentence examples for restrained enough to from inspiring English sources

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

Just as the bleached, ordered look of it is restrained enough to ward off sentimentalism, so we genuinely come to believe in the depth of feeling dammed up behind the reserve and protocol.

But that happens, he said, only if he is restrained enough to save some exuberance and emphasis for that moment, so that by the time listeners see that musical sun they have not already "been to a disco and its light show" and been "blinded by cars driving at night with the headlights in your eyes".

Republicans have struggled in this election with two powerful and competing impulses: to hammer a president they dislike intensely with a strong indictment of his record, but to be restrained enough to win over independent voters, who generally like Mr. Obama.

Early in her career, when she was best known as a Mozart pianist, Mitsuko Uchida played with a palette broad enough to keep her from being mistaken for a performance-practice purist but restrained enough to allow her to pass for an elegant modern Classicist.

yet restrained enough to allow democracy to work in the fullness of time". John's behavior and demeanor on the bench reflected the man he was in private.

And she was restrained enough not to hang up on me when I brought up the fact that she was in an episode of "Viva Laughlin".

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.

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

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

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