self-restrained

“Now, the UK is seen as neither pragmatic, self-restrained, nor a model.”

But unlike the self-restrained Mr. Bush, Mr. Trump revels in pushing limits — a temperament that, when combined with Mr. Barr’s unusually permissive understanding of presidential power, could play out very differently for the rule of law than it did last time.

Liberal individualism doesn’t produce the sort of virtuous, self-restrained people that are required to sustain it.

The editorial concluded that “no self-restrained and self-respecting man, whether white or colored, will, merely to vindicate his legal right to do so, go where he is not wanted, with no necessity pressing and without advantage to himself except notoriety.”

But when the host asked whether Trump might be “more sensitive and self-restrained” than Obama in the use of executive power, the room erupted in laughter.