"restraint" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is clear too, that the arts are associated with sexual pleasure, the sciences with sexual restraint..
- Auguste, patronisingly benevolent, glowed with virtue at his sexual restraint.
- "I don't believe we have descended downward from glorious days, when people practiced sexual restraint," he said.
- Within Blake's myth, she represents female domination and sexual restraints that limit the artistic imagination.
- For example, tight lacing and corsets were popular when sexual restraint was most valued (hence the term "straitlaced").
- Anderson, in return jokingly replied, "So the epitome of womanhood is sexual restraint?
- Russell places a high value on sexual restraint.
- He added, "The next time somebody gets a lecture from a priest on the necessity of sexual restraint, their first reaction might be one of cynicism."
- Extrapolating from their usual response to environmental issues, I assume that liberals will want to attack the problem of excessive sexual restraint through coercive regulation.
- The era is popularly associated with the "Victorian" values of social and sexual restraint.
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