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

It was so unlike his usual timid self-constraint; so inconsistent with his usual taste and tact, and with his instinctive feeling for the higher proprieties.

From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.

But all duty is necessitation or constraint, although it may be self-constraint according to a law.

From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

There were no sickness, no straggling, nor feelings of self-constraint.

From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus