With its restraint and hint of machismo, the fist bump sends a more ambiguous message than the handshake, let alone the loosey-goosey, rapturous high-five.
Indeed, the crowning achievements of Greek art and architecture from the 5th century bce arose from the combination of the art of the Doric peoples (with its restraint, power, and monumentality) and that of the Ionian peoples (with its grace, elegance, and ornateness).
Alkylation of PTEN by α,β-enals/enones and interference with its restraint of cellular PKB/Akt signaling may accentuate hyperplastic and neoplastic disorders associated with chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, or aging.
Taking everyone to a restaurant or hiring a caterer might have been options in flashy Newport across the Claiborne Pell Bridge, but not in Jamestown, with its Quaker restraint.
The fist bump, salutation of American presidents, seems well on its way to similar status, even if it continues to seem less than satisfying as an exclamation point, with its requisite restraint.
But he elaborates it nicely — the original number is thin — and he effectively juxtaposes its restraint with the goofiness of another novelty dance, the self-explanatory Peckin'.
It is a classic Graham environment, with its "cables," "ports," "restraints," and "drips," versions of all of which Graham once encountered in the world at large, and found cause, often, to celebrate.
Handle With Care's literature says its restraint technique is "versatile, effective, painless, safe and easy to apply".
But his good-night kiss to her forehead touched her with its tenderness and restraint.
As the sociologist Daniel Bell has pointed out, traditional capitalism, with its requirements for restraint and planning, is not easily reconciled with the unbounded desires and ambitions of popular culture.
