Sentence examples for restraint with which from inspiring English sources

The great achievement of this novel is the restraint with which Barry allows the awful complexity of Willie's situation to dawn on him.

The "Emperor" Concerto could have been written for Mr. Ohlsson, so well does it suit his muscular technique and the sensitivity and restraint with which he deploys it.

Yet what makes the novel so affecting is the restraint with which Saramago portrays his hero's dimly dawning consciousness that his own preconceptions are no longer adequate to an understanding of the world's horrors.

Yet at heart this book is the portrait of a man, and throughout the reader is conscious of the sensitivity and restraint with which Mr Beaton treats his subject.

One of its original elements is likely to be the restraint with which America chooses its targets.A massive show of force will help to precipitate a quick Iraqi surrender, and demonstrate America's power to other potential adversaries.

In "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier," what's telling is the cool restraint with which she expresses loss and longing; in the "time to laugh" dance in Limón's "There Is a Time," what's remarkable is the full-hearted way she conveys irrepressible mirth, tipping and arching as she trips her way around the stage.

The lines don't come off the page with the heartbreaking restraint and dignity with which Shalhoub invests them.

Although there dialogue is short and perfunctory, their energies are anything but; the love-at-first-sight narrative is remarkably believable because of the restraint and paucity with which the actors handle the scene.

But we will also be defined by the care and sense of self-restraint and responsibility with which we took up these new powers.

Those who follow should watch this film to see the restraint and assertive dignity with which Ms. Rowlands elevates her role.

Minnelli's sympathy for lost and bewildered children has a vast resonance; a sequence involving a rectal thermometer has a shocking psychoanalytic power that's heightened by the chaste restraint and absolute dignity with which Minnelli stages the primal scene of submission to motherly power.