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Example sentences for: restrained

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Ballmer is neither restrained nor tech-savvy enough to lead the company through its current legal and business challenges.
Watson does an exquisite impersonation of a troubled soul; it's probably not her fault that this lonely fruitcake doesn't connect with anything I hear in du Pré's fearless playing, which manages to be both willful and restrained in equal measure.
But departing from the meeting, Milosevic encountered a crowd of Serbs who were being restrained by police and filmed by live television cameras.
Annan was chosen partly because the United States thought he would be "more secretary than general," but he has proved to be a wily negotiator, restrained and persuasive.
Journalists tried to enjoy Zuckerman's egomaniacal self-destruction but were restrained by contempt for Fallows' sanctimony.