Sentence examples for self control of from inspiring English sources

I can see the benefits of responsible microdosing and if I had stuck to my regular microdose then I would've smashed out my work, but I didn't because I have the self control of an unsupervised fat kid at a birthday party.

Even the icy self-control of her solicitor sister proves to be a camouflage for a deeply damaged psyche.

"As Tocqueville wrote, a religious foundation was particularly necessary in a democratic society, because it depends on the self-control of its citizens.

Even the sax solo, as 1980s as slip-ons and Live Aid, is executed with the tight, elegant self-control of Bryan Ferry.

Our three-year-old combines a Cheshire-cat grin with the mischief of a kitten and the self-control of a freebase cocaine addict.

In the late nineteen-sixties, a psychologist named Walter Mischel devised an experiment to test the self-control of four-year-old children.

It was the extreme self-control of a deeply emotional young man who feared the fatal vehemence of his own feelings, if left unchecked.

By James Surowiecki In the late nineteen-sixties, a psychologist named Walter Mischel devised an experiment to test the self-control of four-year-old children.

As the self-control of this skillful actor crumbled, he started to babble in sudden outbursts and heard imaginary phones ringing and people knocking at the door.

Forty years ago, a researcher tested the self-control of 4-year-olds by offering them the choice of one marshmallow immediately or two marshmallows 15 minutes later.

Coming of age before 1968, the elder actresses were raised with a social face, a self-control of public behavior that elevates proper manners into a virtual perpetual choreography.