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
As cold and as unmoved as a statue, Pascal seemed quite unconscious of the effect of the message he had brought—quite unconscious of Valorsay's sufferings and self-constraint.
From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile
Both, therefore, include the notion of constraint, either self-constraint or constraint by others.
From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill
