restrained

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Restrained as a corset, it feels as if "The Essex Serpent" doesn't want us to excite ourselves or to get any ideas beyond the ones drolly lined out for us.

From Salon • May 14, 2022

Restrained price pressures give the Federal Open Market Committee “and me, as a central banker, some latitude to be patient,” Mr. Kaplan said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2018

Restrained, humane and trading in universal needs for nurturing and belonging, Lean on Pete won’t prove remotely as divisive, but its outside gaze is just as integral to its storytelling and its aching emotional payoff.

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2018

Best case: Restrained historical drama wins hearts and minds of voters inclined to reward inspirational, social justice movies.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2016

I have known—who has not?—that a profligate son Has been through his fanatic father undone; Restrained till the night of free licence arrives, And then he breaks out to the wreck of two lives!

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar