She restricts herself to established planting schemes rather than new ones and has often been called upon to tame an estate garden that has been neglected.
For a reality series it's promising material, but really it's the numbers Ms. Settles is confronted with throughout the premiere episode that seem to faze her the most: 324 (her weight in pounds), 50 (her body-mass index) and 1,200 (the calories her doctor recommends she restrict herself to daily).
Over the past few months, she has restricted herself from frivolous movement and rarely left her home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to go anywhere but her doctor's office.
If you decide not to exercise with her, or even if you do, do not eat things she has restricted herself from right in front of her.
Madame Jones, as she preferred to be known, restricted herself to operatic selections, which over the years grew to include costumes and scenery.
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Her vocabulary is wide, but it is true: she does restrict herself largely to the present tense.
Following one reprise of the rainbow at the Chapman brothers' house, she now restricts herself to a less gruelling palette of just a few colours, and takes a month off in between performances, concentrating on other types of work.
She avoids restricting herself to one discipline – "I always had a problem at art school because they made you choose departments" – and her work takes in photography, sculpture and, occasionally, film, theatre and music: an exploration of space in all its aspects.
