Sentence examples for restrained praise from inspiring English sources

In the lead role, Jonathan Bonnici wins universal if restrained praise – he is "appealing", "likeable", "perfectly good" – but the reviews are littered with complaints more commonly heard in a doctor's surgery: "listless", "tired", even "impotent".

Such people therefore offer restrained praise for Sharpton in public, appear at his fake charitable functions, and pretend that he represents some kind of oh-so-very important "voice".

Still, much as I enjoyed last summer's jamboree (I was particularly taken with Allison Case as Crissy, and John Moauro as a Tribe member — both were clearly at the beginning of successful careers), I was a little restrained in my praise even then.

Still, much as I enjoyed last summer's jamboree (I was particularly taken with Allison Case as Crissy, and John Moauro as a Tribe member both were clearly at the beginning of successful careers), I was a little restrained in my praise even then.

The Scot was less restrained in his praise for midfielder Jonny Howson, however.

I am sure they won't be so quick to praise how restrained he has been.

But despite their policies of fiscal rectitude, controlled inflation and restrained spending, and the praise heaped upon them from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the investment has not been forthcoming.

The Periscope Press deemed that the novel's reviews were mostly negative, citing Dr. Alison Kelly's article for The Guardian as the only counter-example, while deeming that it "still read more like restrained criticism than outright praise".

Critics praised the restrained instrumental backings and Dylan's singing, saying that the material had elicited his best vocal performances in recent years.

He won further praise for his restrained portrayal of Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994).

In the Book Review, Cynthia Ozick praised Lelyveld's "restrained newspaperman's voice of principled detachment".