He succeeds, in part, because his approach is so restrained and seductive.
Of course, not everybody has been quite so restrained about it.
So restrained and sophisticated: words I never never thought I'd use for the old showboater.
How does this book manage to be so restrained and so miraculously open to the world?
So what will the Mets, so restrained about spending on talent the last few years, do with this extra money?
In contrast to these theatrics, Mr. Saldinger's painting is so restrained formally that it may seem bland at first.
In the pristine "Rainin' You," the production is so restrained that Mr. Paisley sounds closer to Chris Isaak than to Tim McGraw.
As Mr Schmitt defended his thesis as "honest, manly work", the interviewer enquired:I have known Mr President for quite a while, and what I don't understand is this: why are you so restrained?
"It's dangerous to moan about the official when Bordeaux were better than us," conceded Kombouaré, though his president, Francis Decourriere, was not so restrained, claiming that Chapron had insulted his players.
But if I have to pick just one, then I'd say Julie Christie, whose intelligent, quietly impressive performance is so restrained that it could easily be overlooked, were it not also completely memorable.
President Walesa might not be so restrained: he says he wants 80% of the votes in the coming election, for an overwhelming mandate ("I am not afraid about a victory but about its scale").Few people would accuse President Havel of being power-hungry, and in Tomas Masaryk he does have a home-grown model for the opposition activist turned successful statesman.
