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

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

As cold and as unmoved as a statue, Pascal seemed quite unconscious of the effect of the message he had brought—quite unconscious of Valorsay's sufferings and self-constraint.

From Baron Trigault's Vengeance by Gaboriau, Émile