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

Now this mutually opposed self-constraint and the inevitability of it makes us recognize the incomprehensible property of freedom.

From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

I hope the self-constraint imposed by your courtesy is not too severe for comfort.

From Without a Home by Roe, Edward Payson

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