Some of the very restrained word drawings and notebook entries are intensely expressionistic, for instance, without the use of gesture or color".
So restrained and sophisticated: words I never never thought I'd use for the old showboater.
If Duras weren't so lucky, if she weren't such a natural writer, her critics would have no object for their envy, their policing of excess, as well as the inverse — a suspicion of her restrained economy with words.
Like a good researcher, Tan is quite restrained in his words.
Instead, Obama would try to assure the world that a wiser, humbler, more coöperative America was back: ennobling words and restrained actions.
The United States, analysts said, is taking its lead partly from South Korea, which under President Lee Myung-bak has mixed tough words with restrained action in responding to both the artillery shelling and the earlier sinking of a Navy warship, the Cheonan, which killed 46 South Korean sailors.
Over the years, Mrs. Huxley was also a concert violinist; a freelance filmmaker; a lay psychotherapist; a self-help author; the head of a children's foundation; a lecturer on the human potential movement; and, in her words, a restrained investigator of LSD.
As Mr. Warburton rattles off several unflattering synonyms, Red asks, "So you think 'plain' is a bad word?" With restrained contempt, Mr. Warburton looks at Red and says, "Let's look up 'stupid.' " "His delivery is marvelous," Mr. Miesmer said.
If Toru Takemitsu's movie music is the last word in restrained elegance, the Moscow Soloists executed it sounding like 17 fine young performers who sort of play together.
