Sentence examples for restrained note from inspiring English sources

There is the odd, respectfully restrained note to Winston Churchill, along with loquacious missives to Arthur Schlesinger, John Sparrow, David Astor, Richard Wollheim, Violet Bonham Carter, Bernard Berenson and a glittering array of others.

Next came a more restrained note from one of Gulf's conservative monarchies, the United Arab Emirates, which said that it "welcomes the results of the presidential elections [in Egypt] and respects the choice of the brotherly Egyptian people".

With London papers gloating — "Don't shoot, don't shoot," "Gunned down in a sewer" — over the lynching of a man who had first been savagely beaten and sodomized with a metal object, Cameron tried to strike a restrained note.

We know how this story ends, and Ms. Coppola refrains from showing us the violent particulars, or from sentimentalizing her heroine's fate, preferring to conclude on a quiet, restrained note that registers the loss of Marie's world as touchingly as the rest of the film has acknowledged her folly, her confusion and her humanity.

On a somewhat more restrained note, the National Museum of Wildlife is worth a visit.

The V-Model displays clinical events in a restrained format.

But listen closely, and a chilling drama can be detected beneath the restrained talk about notes scrawled on decades-old letters.

Ordinary viewers were more likely to note the restrained demeanor of a lame duck not ready to retire.

He was unlawfully restrained and wrote a note detailing that restraint and asking what right they had to hit a child.

Plaudits, too, to Zemeckis for avoiding the potential mawkish pitfalls of the final frames, ending on a note of restrained elegy – romantic, nostalgic and affirmative.

I knew it was time when the godellos, with their citric notes and restrained richness, were poured for tasting.