self-restrained
Example Sentences
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Indeed, John Smart thinks that given their processing capacity, A.I.s would actually be “vastly more responsible, regulated, and self-restrained than human beings.”
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2016
But his Black Keys bandmate was not so self-restrained.
From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2014
Yet there were the self-restrained Galaxy tied 0-0 with their captain standing over a potential 68th minute winner.
From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2013
That the earlier generations of Massachusetts were either more law-abiding or more self-restrained than the later, is a proposition which accords neither with tradition nor with the reason of things.
From Some Phases of Sexual Morality and Church Discipline in Colonial New England by Adams, Charles Francis
It flows in a more varied, weighty, and self-restrained stream than the more homogeneous and overflowing current of Spenser’s verse.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
