At the other end of the literary spectrum, Jo Baker's cool, restrained A Country Road, A Tree (Doubleday) performed the unlikely feat of successfully channelling Samuel Beckett's prose style for a powerful biographical novel that illuminated his work with the French resistance and the difficult fruition of his genius.
"Red Hook Road" was very restrained, which surprised some critics.
The restrained patient was driving at high speed on wet roads when she lost control of her car and hit the front end of her vehicle on an embankment causing the car to roll over.
Both the LS6 (V-6) and the LS8 (V-8) have the firm road feel of a Mercedes-Benz, the restrained sculpting of a BMW and, at highway speeds, the supremely quiet cabin of a Volvo or Audi sedan.
Experiences with the mixed traffic on two-lane roads indicate that such traffic mostly contains two groups: restrained and unrestrained.
The fire station, designed in a "restrained Modernist" style by Graeme Highet in 1938, curves round the road and features carved motifs by Joseph Cribb.
Karzai adopted a far more restrained style, continually stressing what he said had been his successes in power, particularly the construction of schools, roads and other basic infrastructure.
In the context of the recent building boom, when hills across the country were clear-cut to make room for suburban-size lawns and topped with large houses, the hunkered-down house and its restrained, almost imperceptible garden have a quiet but powerful presence — even as they are invisible from the closest roads.
Investment plans remain surprisingly restrained.
Thankfully, it's all very restrained and the rooms feel far more modern than those at the Dorchester, that festival of chintz a few doors down the road.
