The issue is so timely because many traditional external restraints on individual behavior have fallen away.

A critic who saw the Haarlem exhibit concluded that the murals lacked traditional restraint but would probably appeal to their intended audience.

"Even though the personal exercise of power was tempered and circumscribed by religious and traditional restraints, it continued to be arbitrary and total."

Elections were carnivals where all men were equal for one day and traditional restraints relaxed.

What has happened is a growing willingness to abandon traditional restraints on proved and suspected enemies, foreign and American alike.

Urbanization has meant rapid breakdown of traditional tribal restraints.

The hallway would soothe arriving travellers after their hellish journeys, hence the traditional cool restraint of black and white floor tiles.

In a crisis, he said, the military repercussions of that trend could erode the traditional restraints on nuclear arms.

At the height of its use, it was considered more humane than traditional restraints made of ropes or chains.

Musicians across the pop spectrum were liberated from exercising traditional craftsmanly restraints.