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

Again, the real self, gracious and beautiful, may strive to express itself through a set of faculties that are hardened and narrowed by decades of self-constraint on the part of himself and his ancestors.

From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.

But all duty is necessitation or constraint, although it may be self-constraint according to a law.

From The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill