I expect you to keep a running assessment of your emotional and physical reserves.

He had stormed away when his emotional reserve finally shattered against her obstinacy.

Both painters project in their work a degree of emotional reserve.

The night's proceedings had worn down his emotional reserves.

I collapsed moments after we finished, my physical and emotional reserves utterly spent.

He'd always worried about his daughter's emotional reserve in the past.

Caring for a disturbed son, they had little emotional reserve when their lives were turned upside down.

That meant a certain pallidness and emotional reserve in the first act.

She stared back at him with no expression, like a woman who had long used up all her emotional reserves.

With few emotional reserves to fall back on, Becca panicked.