The phrase "restrictive life" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a life that is limited or constricted in some way, such as by rules, regulations, or circumstances. Here is an example sentence: "After being diagnosed with a chronic illness, Jake had to adapt to a more restrictive life, giving up many of his favorite activities in order to manage his symptoms."
This is the age at which teenagers must begin to choose whether to be baptized into the restrictive life of the Amish or leave it.
They say that it is simply that she is more at ease, having had a year to acclimatise herself to the restrictive life of a prime minister's wife.
Critics of this view have pointed to cases where it is imagined that persons adopt what we all would call oppressive and overly restrictive life situations but in a way that meets the minimal conditions of autonomy on proceduralist accounts, so that on such accounts they count as autonomous because of the self-governing processes by which they entered such oppressive conditions.
I believed the confines of a restrictive life were far more comforting than the alternatives: living in an uncomfortable world as myself, or not living at all.
The biography dealt feelingly with the frustrations, deprivations and solitude of a great woman writer with no literary confidantes and a restrictive family life.
Many weekend visitors particularly from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia prefer Belgrade nightlife to that of their own capitals, due to a perceived friendly atmosphere, great clubs and bars, cheap drinks, the lack of language difficulties, and the lack of restrictive night life regulation.
It's about standing up against restrictive forces in life.
"Mad Men" evokes nostalgia for a careless, less restrictive way of life, floating on a permissive wash of sex, booze and cigarettes, but it never stops sending up the naïveté and backward biases of those times.
The new legislation is restrictive, but pro-life groups want to keep it that way, claiming that if abortion law in Ireland becomes any more similar to Britain's approach, the "floodgates would open", angering many who have ethical objections to the practice.
9 Only patients presenting with cardiogenic shock may be considered for restrictive end-of-life care in connection with other unfavourable characteristics.
The impact of her Scarborough childhood on her writing is most obvious in her early works, such as A Bit of Singing and Dancing (1973) and A Change for the Better (1969), both of which are soap opera-like slices of genteel life in restrictive seaside towns, riddled with societal expectations and guesthouses.
