Sentence examples for restrained excitement from inspiring English sources
The capacity audience received the orchestra with the kind of warm but slightly restrained excitement that has been the norm on this trip: excited participatory clapping for the more rousing encores, quick dispersal afterward.
In fact, the songs are as brash as ever, full of spare, restrained excitement, and yet they were made with surprisingly few tools.
The no-tech nature of the sleuthing (Doug ferrets out one clue by scribbling a pencil on a blank motel notepad, revealing the indentations left underneath by another hand) keeps the story in the realm of the plausible, even as the minor twists add slow-moving ripples of restrained excitement.
Despite the need to clarify some issues, South Korean officials could scarcely restrain their excitement over the message.
I couldn't help but look down, of course, as I couldn't restrain the excitement I'm sure he saw when I met his gaze again.
It would be unfair to discuss this book without the bright spots--of restrained hope, subdued excitement, and guarded skepticism.
There's no doubt that his excitement is tempered and restrained and will be until those guys are free.
These wretches, hardly able to restrain themselves in their excitement, were making victims of my wife and children.
Expectations are restrained.
Others were less restrained.
