self-restraining
Example Sentences
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These two countries are called superpowers, but the name is illusory, since the power they have to level the earth and each other is self-restraining.
From Time Magazine Archive
For such a house as this embodies the possibility of living with grace and decorum throughout by dint of loving carefulness and self-restraining simplicity.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
From Marriage à la mode by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Suffering under the sting of such a fearful apprehension, it required me to exert all the self-restraining power of which I was possessed.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
He had sat by Maria day after day, wiping the cold dampness from her forehead and watching her self-restraining pride.
From Old Kaskaskia by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
