Sentence examples for restrained sense from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sportiello — like Mr. Shearing, who died in 2011 — ventures into bop territory but always with a restrained sense and balance and proportion.

There is a restrained sense of madness throughout The Cars That Ate Paris; a feeling the drama might tip over into mayhem at any moment.

The wonderfully restrained sense of deep disappointment underlying Chinodya's narrative reminded me of how similar the histories of many African countries are, how passionately people believed in ideas that would disappoint them, in people that would betray them, in futures that would elude them.

The tight-lipped discipline of effective ruses and persuasive lies stiffens the action throughout, and Zemeckis controls the tense scenes with a similarly taut and restrained sense of suspense, paying particular attention to the static volatility that risks being sparked by a ticking clock.

Critics described it as "eerie" and "neurotic", with "a quiet, restrained sense of dread".

They combine a matter-of-factness, often approaching coldness, with an intricate lyricism; they are measured, both in the sense of "restrained" and in the poetic sense of "metrical," the former meaning often giving way to the second as you read.

He should project a passion restrained by a sense of spirituality that transforms Marguerite's garden into something like a shrine….

We merely need to restore those primitive forms of capitalism that are restrained by common sense and common morality, in a way that the unfettered market is not.

There were no thundering choruses in this version, which at times almost sounded too restrained — although the sense of drama increased in the second and third parts.

Every time he tries to articulate a grand philosophy -- from his book "The Audacity of Hope" to his joint-session health care speech last September -- he always describes a moderately activist government restrained by a sense of trade-offs.

He was our Dryden, our Coleridge our Arnols, as long as he was alive our literature seemed in some sense restrained from the apocalyptic formlessness & obscenity that it seeks.