As for the HLP, the diversity and sheer complexity of the many issues they are expected to address could lead, at one extreme, to a restrained focus on clearly achievable, and therefore politically acceptable, specific goals, or, at the other extreme, to ambitious all-encompassing goals that are impossible to deliver because they are the responsibility of everyone (and therefore of no-one).
Raf Simons's collection for Jil Sander dazzled retailers and editors alike because it pressed the assumptions about minimalism while remaining, essentially, a restrained show focused on curvilinear shapes.
For $495 a night, guests at the Roosevelt receive a room, a DVD of the fourth season of "Mad Men," a "Mad Men" cookbook and period cocktails — the period, of course, being 1960s New York, when, in the show's imagination, any Scotch consumed after 10 a.m. betrayed a restrained and focused temperament.
In contrast, Obama's meeting with Brown this morning was low-key, restrained and focused on the the challenges facing the G-20 -- as it should be.
The Third Symphony, relatively restrained and more focused in its borrowing, seemed a calming slow movement before the all-out radicalization of the Fourth.
Paolo Gavanelli's Rigoletto is firm-toned and visually compelling, although he was out of tune just a bit too often for comfort; Eric Halfvarson's Sparafucile is sinisterly restrained and perfectly focused.
Not all his writing is this restrained - his conscientious focus on his female characters'fullll, trembling breasts' and 'luscious backsides' offers little compensation for their maltreatment at the hands of society and he is prone to blithe statements about the 'sad, mysterious, gloomy look that often haunts the faces of homosexuals'.
The slow-moving pace of life in Vichy, whose welcome has been one of restrained politeness, probably helps focus the mind and not too many brains around the camp need to be picked before it seeps out that two weeks here have fermented a degree of stir-craziness.
Even if the restrained style and female focus of Ida are radically different from Aftermath, it too suggests ghosts.
The study is focused on restrained shrinkage of thin structures exposed to drying.
In fact, a recent analysis by Benjamin Friedman of the Cato Institute suggests that the Pentagon could scale back spending substantially if the United States were to pursue a more restrained defense strategy that focuses on core security interests.
