Sentence examples for restraint in which from inspiring English sources

The result is a "work of dark restraint" in which "the phantom tiger and the hunter emerge as a perfect match," Rob Nixon wrote in these pages in 2000.

Early on, the show had an era of restraint in which the hero, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (the tall drink of water Timothy Olyphant), tried to convince his bosses that he could hold fire.

Marguerite Duras translated James Lord's original adaptation and the result, even in Jacques Lassalle's slightly fussy production, is an evening of civilised restraint in which almost all the drama lies beneath the surface.

To be sure, Strauss asserted "the natural right of the stronger" to prevail: "The only restraint in which the West can put some confidence is the tyrant's fear of the West's immense military power".

Even a few celebrities, those early adopters of appearance technology, have started to deride the plasticized look that sometimes accompanies cosmetic interventions, a harbinger perhaps of a new climate of restraint in which overt augmentation seems like bad taste.

Incidents of restraint (in which a child's movement is restricted), seclusion (in which a child is involuntarily confined alone in a room) and other behavioral episodes in California schools more than doubled to 21,076 between the 2005-6 and 2009-10 school years, according to California Department of Education figures.

For transient and fleeting ones, however, when a single conformation failed to satisfy all the intermolecular cross-links, we invoked ambiguous distance restraints, in which a distance restraint was accounted for by any one of the conformers in the ensemble (Fig. S10).

This leadership pattern is useful in situations with heavy time restraints, in which you know the most about what needs to be done and how to do it.

A star for attaining stardom — a star star — Matthew Barney has won much bewildered notice in the popular press for a new film, "Drawing Restraint 9," in which he and Björk have at each other with flensing knives on a Japanese whaling ship.

It is this lack of restraint in writing which is the chief fault of The Mistressclass.

His first novel, The Restraint of Beasts, in which two men erect high-tensile fences across a bog, set the tone and was shortlisted for the Booker in 1998.