self-restraining
Example Sentences
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These two countries are called superpowers, but the name is illusory, since the power they have to level the earth and each other is self-restraining.
From Time Magazine Archive
The arrogant spending instinct had gained upon the moderating and self-restraining instinct.
From Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
With the multitude, self-restraining meekness under provocation is a virtue which stands quite low in the catalogue.
From Friends and Neighbors by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Suffering under the sting of such a fearful apprehension, it required me to exert all the self-restraining power of which I was possessed.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne
For such a house as this embodies the possibility of living with grace and decorum throughout by dint of loving carefulness and self-restraining simplicity.
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Lee, Vernon
