self-restraining

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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 Lee, Vernon

It was beyond the ordinary scope of the self-restraining forces in Moonface to await with calm the recovery of Lightfoot's breath and powers of conversation.

From The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Waterloo, Stanley

There is more of genius, art, thought, and study in this self-restraining simplicity than in the freer and bolder eloquence that might make young pulses tingle.

From Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) by Various

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 Reid, Mayne