And that might be a restrained estimation.
Ethan A. Nadelmann, director of the Lindesmith Center, whose critics say it undermines drug control efforts, was less restrained in endorsing the ideas presented here.
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.
Back in the 1970s, the separate added a restrained, creative dimension to the idea of letting it all hang out, and that legacy has not died.
Gerwig's restrained direction emerges from the very ideas in the film.
This could be a brilliant marketing strategy (two demographics for the price of one) or the accidental consequence of trusting a generic idea to an unusually thoughtful and restrained director (George Ratliff, who also wrote the script, with David Gilbert).
"Angels" opens Coexist with a restrained style and soft-spoken verses about the idea of being in love.
Pianist Alexis Bosch, who adopts an elegantly restrained style on "Guajira Simple," bucks the traditional idea of the almost excessively flamboyant and virtuosic Cuban pianist.
But when he recruited Rick Rubin to produce "Born Free" the idea was to make the kind of restrained, cohesive album that might keep finding new listeners for years, regardless of whether it was on the radio.
The magazine Commentary was more restrained, but worried, "That such a fringe and wacky idea gains any voice in Arabic media or on Islamist Web sites should be cause for concern, given precedent".
