Sentence examples for restrained excess from inspiring English sources

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The Menshikov bust is a model of restrained excess: from the slightly bulbous nose, thin lips and intently focused expression of the lean face to the dazzlingly intricate armor and lavish quadruple bow and jabot (note its minutely whip-stitched edges) to the elaborate periwig, profuse with snail-shell curls up front and languid tendrils down the back.

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Laraia [ 43] found that the association of restrained eating with excess GWG holds true only among women who experienced marginal food insecurity.

These being professional times, the pushing and shoving of 2016 were much more restrained than the excesses of 41 years ago, but it did seem that the whole Melbourne stage was set for something hostile.

The flushed sugar rush of Luhrmann's film-making – not that we'd have believed it then, but a positively restrained dry run for the ecstatic excess of 2001's marvelous Moulin Rouge! – worked to conjure the same air of reckless, uncalculated feeling.

From his own youthful excesses, Raczko developed a restrained training and racing program for Webb.

Compared to past show houses, which have run to glorious excess, this year's rooms were quiet and restrained, short on big ideas and chintz, but long on soothe.

Here, the HG temperature rises to an excess of 100 °C for both the restrained and unrestrained conditions.

Ms. Yan's restrained performance helps blunt the story's melodramatic excesses, as does Mr. Wang's arm's-length, faintly documentary-style direction.

In his design for the Chapel, Hardenbergh attempted a "restrained approach to Gothic architecture" that refrained from the excesses ("fripperies") of typical examples of Victorian Gothic.

A second spin on the Dickens classic, this time a satire on the excesses of 1980s television that now seems almost restrained in comparison with modern reality.

If Duras weren't so lucky, if she weren't such a natural writer, her critics would have no object for their envy, their policing of excess, as well as the inverse — a suspicion of her restrained economy with words.

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