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In captivity--that is, in the more restrained and stylized realm of written language--examples of the nonironic groovy tend to predominate heavily.
Just one small detail that might have given Dole and his illustrious advisers a moment's pause: The appropriations measures, while restrained by recent standards, nonetheless weigh in at probably $16 billion over the target the GOP Congress set for domestic discretionary spending only a year ago.
America's slow vanishing, whose pacewas doubled, not restrained, by celluloid.The summer nights on Fire Island, proppedon hard liquor like driftwood in a scuttle;the winter nights in violin-backed chairs(the slender tenors with their pompadours!)
On average, mid-July to the end of September is considered the most dependable time of year because of the mild temperatures and relatively restrained rainfall.
In the good old days, says the Post , Bradley "was more restrained," declining "to comment on the Clinton administration's fund-raising behavior."