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

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

I hope the self-constraint imposed by your courtesy is not too severe for comfort.

From Without a Home by Roe, Edward Payson

He sat down with visible self-constraint when Charmian invited him to do so.

From The Coast of Bohemia by Howells, William Dean