Sentence examples for was barely contained from inspiring English sources
His smile was barely contained.
And Mr. Mascis closed the concert with a trio set that was barely contained by the room.
During a dual interview yesterday with Side Effects co-star Jude Law, she was asked what it was like to kiss Catherine Zeta-Jonescreencreen, and her internal eye roll was barely contained.
Satrapi has lost none of the spark that she put on the page, and then on screen, in Persepolis, where the comic rage of her adolescence was barely contained in the inky blocks and minimalist lines.
With his new-found powers (and taking a page from Chelsea Handler's farewell) he assembled a group of stars and former guests so massive it was barely contained in the studio, all singing We'll Meet Again.
Where just months earlier Cosmo's covers had featured photos of demure, high-collared girl-next-door types like Mary Tyler Moore, Ms. Brown's first issue, July 1965, showed a voluptuous blond model whose deep cleavage was barely contained by her plunging neckline.
Traffic there is barely contained chaos.
Comedy is about drives so intense they are barely contained by a rigid edifice of convention.
Many of the scenes, depicted as extreme close-ups, are barely contained by the edges of the book.
I had previously seen her stealing the show in several Pina Bausch works; there she seemed a slippery being barely contained by that choreographer's loose phrases.
All this is barely contained by a potato hoagie from Baked in Brooklyn, which plies its trade across from Green-Wood Cemetery.
