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
Restrained and short, it ends quietly, with some demure plucks in the strings.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2016
Restrained from open vice by educational views and the fear of man, how much ungodliness has reigned within me!
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.
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