Sentence examples for restrained quality from inspiring English sources
There's a restrained quality to the performance, particularly in the show's first half, as though the actors are being careful, pussyfooting around one another a little bit as they make sure to hit their marks.
Banderas brings a tough, restrained quality to the doctor, a man who has allowed his genius to become a kind of madness, informed by talent and intelligence.
As a result, the book has an eerie restrained quality, not so much absorbed with its own darkness as it is a calm exploration of the emotional texture of the difficulty of life and aftermath of the end of it, a catalog of understandings, though each of them almost museum-like, at once warm and cold.
For whatever reason, be it the focus of the music or the restrained quality of the DJs, the standard punter is not only "there for the music", but conscious enough of everybody else not to spend the evening shoving people out of the way.
Instead they bring to mind minerals and stones, apple and citrus fruits, occasionally tarragon and anise, and sometimes a restrained honeyed quality.
While Smother sounds both ambitious and restrained, its overarching quality is of a continually interesting band making rich, engaging music sound effortless.
Zeami's plays emphasized the quality of restrained beauty (yūgen), a concept derived in part from Zen Buddhism.
Its spare decoration might be a floral motif of ivory inlay or a fanlike bronze adornment, always of high quality and restrained style.
"You can always tell a Faberge from a non-Faberge by its classical proportions, restrained design and the quality of the workmanship and materials," Peter Schaffer said.
Searching for Mr Right is one of my all-time favourite tracks, there's such a restrained if not resigned quality to Allison Statton's voice that is both sinister and utterly heartbreaking.
I knew, therefore, that a heightened speech inherited from everyday language would create a quality of restrained energy that I'd need if the interwoven stories of The Green Hollow were to be sustained through an hour of television.
