General characteristics of the lute song are smooth, flowing, and restrained lines, while the continuo song is more vigorous, abrupt and discontinuous.
Try your hand at Olympic greatness by visiting the simulator that has you skiing down the giant slope and propelling you in the air, or opt for a more restrained zip line ride from the top.
From the 1950s cat's-eye and punk's deliberate smear to the more restrained geometric line that has appeared on the street and runways this season, nothing else so instantly conjures female sexuality — as both teenage girls and their dismayed mothers know.
Posters for "La Dolce Vita" of Anita Ekberg with high-drama cat's-eyes might as well have been advertisements for eyeliner itself, and Jean Seberg's spare style in "Breathless" — shorn hair, a striped T-shirt and a bare face but for a restrained, artistic upper line — could easily be worn today.
Because "Revolutionary Road" became the decade's great, terrifying indictment of suburban surrender, Yates's stories are often likened to John Cheever's, but they are closer to J. F. Powers's: the same richly restrained prose, luxuriously lined but plain to the touch; the same anxious comedy; the same very cold, appraising eye; and the same superb ear for the foolish histrionics of speech.
Count Albrecht Goertz (who later designed the Datsun 240Z) drew the 507 with restrained, less romantic lines than those of its chief competitor, the 300SL, and consequently it didn't sell well.
The xx are a well-known and yet still improbably young trio from London, whose music is skeletal and hushed, using almost exclusively monophonic lines and restrained rhythms.
In this climate, there's something refreshing about a show that takes a more restrained approach, along the lines of an Agatha Christie novel: a small town, multiple suspects, and a contained story.
Gleizes's full-length portrait of Arcos painted the next year shows Le Fauconnier's influence and Gleizes's first experimentation with Cubism in its simplified forms, flatness, strong lines, and restrained use of colour.
In just four seasons Beckham has developed a strong signature look – slim elegant lines, a restrained sexiness, and a keen attention to detail whether it be an internal corset or a rose-gold zip snaking the length of a dress.
