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
People no longer think about self-constraint, and self-adjustment, and of keeping up their dignity under all circumstances, and of subjecting the weaknesses of human nature to the exigencies of rank.
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
He sat down with visible self-constraint when Charmian invited him to do so.
From The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells
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 Thomas Kingsmill Abbott
