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 Durand, John

Her whole life was crossed; her quiet was all gone; she was now doomed to an existence of perpetual self-constraint and renunciation, and even deception.

From The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. by Various

A stern self-constraint excludes everything exclamatory, all glimpses and disclosures of what merely affects the writer, all advantages from an appeal, disguised and indirect perhaps, to the opinion of his own side.

From Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)