Sentences with phrase «too restrained»

It's too bulky and slow to be a great Android phone, but too restrained in image quality and optics to be a fantastic professional camera.

The scientists have been way too restrained in fighting back.

Over at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, in his first New York solo show, «The Skin I Live In» (January 8 — February 7), the British artist Jonathan Baldock also appeared to have been informed by Kogelnik in body - minded pieces he made by sewing limbs — felt arms and legs — and dots (pink, white, and blue) in decorous arrangements onto burlap, but the end result is too staid, too restrained.

In past Monster Hunter games, I felt a bit too restrained.

Something approaching 90 per cent of UK orders placed so far include it and understandably so, because the VXR looks good with it but a little too restrained without it.

If you like the sound of the SV but you think it's a touch too restrained — or perhaps you're claustrophobic — then you'll be pleased to know you can have it with a removeable roof.

Sadly, Russell Crowe in the title role is too restrained and too bland as Robin, although he does have the presence and swoon - worthy appeal, even when he dons a purple paisley shirt and slick leather pants to show off his soft side.

The episode's score tries to emulate Anderson, but the music and sound design are too restrained to make any meaningful impact.

Biggs is painted as an earnest, if deluded man, too restrained by rules and protocol to see the truth, and lacking an education in the school of hard knocks that has made such virtuous men of Hodges and Childers.

Bridges and Streep attempt to elevate «The Giver» with their performances, but director Phillip Noyce («Salt») is too restrained with them as well.

All of this is too restrained to work as melodrama, though, and the movie really suffers there.

Regrettably, the opportunity is typically squandered, and such is the case with The Finest Hours, a decent dramatization that's too restrained and measured to be interesting.

In a series that's gone all - out weird before — even «Iron Man 3» was delightfully offbeat — «Ant - Man» is far too restrained to stand out amongst its peers, too careful to leave a lasting mark of its own.

If Antoine Fuqua's 2013 «Die Hard in the White House» effort Olympus Has Fallen felt too PC, too artistic, too restrained, too competent for you, you are in luck!

They can reach their toys without feeling too restrained and the inflatable sides allowed them learn to sit in a safe space.

8 Steven Gerrard — 6 Demonstrated his usual range of long and short passing, but looks too restrained in this role at times.

«I think he would say that at present the danger in monetary policy would be to be too restrained rather than to be too expansionary,» said Steve Rattner, who worked with Summers at the White House.

Early on he sensed that working within the established protocols of paint and canvas felt too restraining.

Not exact matches

For now, sports marketing experts say that Under Armour has, believe it or not, restrained from marketing Spieth too hard.

It's also restrained — there are no gaudy logos on the back, and the bezels on its front are thin, letting that big screen sit there without making the phone too huge.

«Employers have free speech too, but they should be somewhat restrained,» Beck says.

Philip J. Purcell, Mr. Mack's predecessor as chief executive, stepped down under pressure in 2005, when he angered the firm's old guard by pushing retail while restraining traders from taking on too much risk.

As a result, monetary policies aimed at restraining credit growth overall might end up being too tight for some regions, leading to accelerating bankruptcies, and too loose for others, fueling out - of - control credit growth.

Left for too long, long term unemployment will eventually lead to permanent atrophying of skills that will restrain the economy's growth potential.

But it's not enough, the interest groups stressed: The deduction, they complain, is «temporary and too low,» and efforts to restrain the deduction's cost go too far.

They would suggest that the United States acted too quickly, or without enough thought, or without proper consultation, or without thinking of the future, or just in that simple - minded, violent, cowboy way those simple - minded violent American cowboys always act when not restrained by European moral sensitivity.

I think Capitalist is a nut job too, but can't you restrain yourself from such lame and childish tauntings?

On all too many occasions, hanging would truly be «too good for him,» but that familiar phrase reminds us how far civilized law restrains itself from meting out thoroughgoing retribution, presumably for reasons that must supersede society's legitimate concern for reciprocity, proportionality and just deserts.

Her teaching is too often held captive by the cultural mandate to be «welcoming» (an attribute equally descriptive of hell), entertaining (an anti-intellectualism defining the «primacy of fun» in parish life), private (that enduring heresy of fideism), and profitable (a materialistic vision that defines and restrains the parish mission).

I worry that constitutionalists place too much emphasis on the constraints of constitutionalism, always using language of «checking, restraining or blocking».

It's the kind of cake you want to eat too much of and have to restrain yourself.

I restrained myself not to get too many or I'd blow off this month's grocery budget.

Having finished the ice - cream, we were tempted to wolf down the sauce too, but I managed to restrain us both so that a full jug will be accompanying the second serving tomorrow.

I'll have to restrain myself from making this too often if I want to keep my girly figure:D Thanks for the recipe.

And as I mentioned above, try to restrain yourself from eating too much before you get the potatoes on top.

I had to restrain myself from showing too much excitement so they wouldn't get suspicious...

Mavinga for Axetze would have been the better substitution in this game - this would restrain moor, who had the freedom to walk up the middle uncontested all game and that resulted in a moor being too forward position or making terrible shots at net.

Taller dads will love the adjustable shoulder straps that allow you to either wear the diaper bag across your chest or over your shoulder comfortable without feeling too tight or restrained.

This one keeps your pet safe on car rides, too, because it lets you loop a seatbelt through to keep your pup restrained.

So, too, is the US military, according to Renee Wegrzyn, the DARPA programme officer leading its «Safe Genes» initiative, which supports research on restraining gene drives.

Remember the form and range of motion is a very important thing you need to focus on — if the weight is heavy enough to break your form and restrain your range of motion then it's TOO HEAVY.

Although you may watch not to restrain the movement while performing bench press, many athletes do so during pulling movements with too much weight.

I'm trying to restrain myself from wearing too much olive because I love the color so much!

It also comes in light blue too, but I had to restrain myself from buying them all lol.

I have to restrain my boho impulses too.

Oh man, cat mittens and pastel florals - you do always manage to find some of the most perfect pieces out there: — RRB - Every time I see one of these posts I really have to restrain myself from making far too many purchases for my wallet... hehe.

I had that skirt in my hands today and decided to restrain myself (I already had a sweater and a silk top in my hands too).

Pretty restrained, and so it doesn't distract too much from the essence — which is the person behind the outfit.

I want the give me more lip set too haha but I restrained myself during the 20 % off so definitely can't get it now.

You honestly may like things that other people consider too kinky for them (restrain bondage, cross-dressing, etc.).