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
I hope the self-constraint imposed by your courtesy is not too severe for comfort.
From Without a Home by Edward Payson Roe
There were no sickness, no straggling, nor feelings of self-constraint.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
But all duty is necessitation or constraint, although it may be self-constraint according to a law.
From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
