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
Both, therefore, include the notion of constraint, either self-constraint or constraint by others.
From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill
"Won't you wait and see my mother?" asked Florida, with her awkward self-constraint again upon her.
From A Foregone Conclusion by Howells, William Dean
The closer relation into which the minds of the lovers came after their betrothal and the removal of a degree of deference and self-constraint, gave opportunity for the real character of each to show itself.
From After the Storm by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
