self-constraint
Example Sentences
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Serial television mostly puts its directors into a box, too—and, like movie-franchise boxes, it involves a defining-down of artistic freedom, whether by executive dictates or by self-constraint in advance.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2023
And for Buttigieg, who didn’t come out until age 33, that’s a lot of years of unnatural self-constraint.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2020
But on his part so rigid a self-constraint underlying it that we are not sure some of the little waves didn't say—not Sally at all, but—Miss Nightingale!
From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan
Her whole life was crossed; her quiet was all gone; she was now doomed to an existence of perpetual self-constraint and renunciation, and even deception.
From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various
"Won't you wait and see my mother?" asked Florida, with her awkward self-constraint again upon her.
From A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells
