Sentence examples for theme restraint from inspiring English sources

While none of the decorators took big risks or showed major innovations, there was a clear theme: restraint, calm and comfort.

The wines' common theme is restraint.

Churchill's work carries urgent themes – with restraint.

But Mr. Clayton's solo, bridging statements of the theme, was all restraint and concision, the work of someone interested in the clearest articulation of an idea.

Senator George Allen of Virginia, who like many other Republicans is campaigning for re-election on a theme of fiscal restraint, was among the signers.

He played the opening theme with elegiac restraint, then tore into the rippling passagework that begins the piano's elaboration of the music as the orchestra takes up that theme, and so on.

AMONG other themes, a new restraint was evident at last week's Maison et Objet, the twice-yearly trade show held outside Paris.

There are some big themes done with restraint: the collapse of Kevin, Lewis and Ashley as they are each mired deeper into the kidnapping; Ashley just about keeping it together; Lewis a complete wreck; Kevin bobbing dangerously just afloat.

I've heard more barnstorming performances - and he played the opening theme with too-classical restraint - but once embarked on its elaborations, he brought out in full the music's sheer lust for life.

This idea of strength through prudence, example, and restraint echoes themes Professor Thomas Madden ascribes to the golden age of the Roman Empire.

In a turbulent era, Kennan's consistent themes were balance and restraint.