She was at her best, though, in more restrained music.

So why were they playing a restrained game with him?

There's another area in which you can let yourself be less restrained.

"You need to be very restrained in a story like that."

The look he gave her was one of restrained violence.

"If you step back and look at the total picture, the government has been very restrained."

Restrained though his part might be, it always seemed to make a very great difference.

You have to look at the big picture though, and so far it has been quite restrained.

Restrained or not, all make it clear they want resolution.

And Yahoo may be the most restrained company in the game.

Even so, the Fed was more restrained than in the past.

There are now only 13 restrained patients, compared with 369 in 1989.

It was the most restrained thing he could manage to say.

She would not have been that restrained, under similar circumstances.

It was the kind of answer a might make, wise and restrained.

Those on the south and west, not visible from the street, are more restrained.

He also supports a strong national defense, but with a more restrained foreign policy.

The current forecast is for a restrained increase of 0.1 percent.

One was big, with an air of restrained violence: the heavy.

After losing his friend, he became much more quiet and restrained.

In a patient and restrained display, Brown took four hours to make his century.

Her Chanel seems even more restrained than it was before the show.

"It will be a restrained equity environment for a long time."

By the standards she'd grown used to, that was a restrained response.

On the record, the criticism is only slightly more restrained.

And yet old people are being restrained all the time.

And then the children restrained themselves only for a while.

But I restrained myself and just put the head inside.

He was about to set to work at once, when she restrained him.

I've been restraining myself for six and a half years!

She moved to go past him, but he shot out a hand and restrained her.

He wanted them to restrain me until the police came.

He thought of saying, I'm in no position to restrain her from anything.

Why had he not tried to restrain the King at least?

You had to be restrained for it to take place.

During his 11 month stay at the hospital he was restrained by staff 28 times.

The girl bit him as he tried to restrain her.

"I hope you restrained yourself because of your wife and kids."

He wanted to take her into his arms, but restrained himself.

The more she restrained him, the better he seemed to like it.

They need, first, to be restrained, which means outside control.

Most believe it will be difficult for him to restrain himself.

I tried to restrain him, but it was no use.

Why would she want to restrain a man like that?

No matter what she said, James knew he must restrain himself.

It must have been difficult last summer for him to restrain himself.

She did not appear to be restrained in any way.

Richard wanted to ask a question, but he restrained himself.

But it was quite an act of will to restrain myself.

Restraining him by physical means was out of the question.

One has to restrain oneself in speaking, looking, and listening.

It is not restraining oneself by taking others as the norm.

Why restrain oneself? it’s a magic moment, I love it!

It is absolutely difficult to restrain oneself in the face of constant assaults.

It is much harder to restrain oneself to produce a simple, reliable, user friendly, site.

Maturing means restraining oneself - precisely what environmentalists contend our species must do.

The stronger the urge, the harder (i.e., more strength) one needs to restrain oneself from indulging it.

Now culture may or may not include the power to admire antiquities, and to restrain oneself from the pleasure of breaking them like toys.

To leave the table for bodily functions was considered inappropriate and restraining oneself was considered good manners.

Upon this, the third day of junketing, it was tiresome to have to restrain oneself even from such innocent excursions of fancy.

Restraining oneself from anger is seen as noble and desirable, as Ethics of the Fathers states:

The text recommends restraining oneself from salt, mustard, acidic foods, spicy astringent pungent foods.

Higher levels of dysfunctional impulsivity have been related to difficulty restraining oneself from smoking in inappropriate places, smoking without being aware of doing so, and overall craving for cigarettes.

Well, he did not complain about that: it was very irritating sitting down at ameal alone and restraining oneself, between courses, from poking the tines of a fork into a fraying patch.

This formulation, as indicated in the parable of the Good Samaritan, emphasizes the needs for positive action that brings benefit to another, not simply restraining oneself from negative activities that hurt another.