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

The duty of virtue is essentially distinguished from the duty of justice in this respect; that it is morally possible to be externally compelled to the latter, whereas the former rests on free self-constraint only.

From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

The doctrine of this cannot belong to jurisprudence, but to ethics, since this alone includes in its conception self-constraint according to moral laws.

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