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Promotional material calls it “The Killers’ most restrained and resonant album yet.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2021

As the first cut fades into “The Flow,” a regal bass line and cymbals give way to gentle, chord-based piano, followed by the most restrained electric guitar.

From Washington Times • Apr. 19, 2019

It’s one of the actor’s most restrained, affecting performances.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2017

For all the “hysterical melodrama”, as Stevens himself called it, of The Age of Adz, Futile Devices is by far its most restrained track.

From The Guardian • May 11, 2017

This cautious calculating disposition too, is most predominant in those who are in the most easy circumstances: where the liability to incur loss is greatest, the spirit of enterprize is generally most restrained.

From Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by Wentworth, William Charles