self-constraint

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.

And for Buttigieg, who didn’t come out until age 33, that’s a lot of years of unnatural self-constraint.

This stronger self-constraint by each and every one of you as regards debts and deficits is important in itself.

"This stronger self-constraint ... as regards debts and deficits is important in itself," said Herman Van Rompuy, who as President of the European Council played a key role in negotiating an agreement acceptable to all signatories.

That hidden masterful Something, for which we long have no name until at last it shows itself as our task—that tyrant in us exacts a terrible price for every attempt that we make to escape him or give him the slip, for every premature act of self-constraint, for every reconciliation with those to whom we do not belong, for every activity, however reputable, which turns us aside from our main purpose, yes, even for every virtue that would fain protect us from the cruelty of our most individual responsibility.