Word: restraint
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Rhetoric & Restraint...
...hysterical Shylock, who, on finding his daughter gone, ranted and howled through the house, tore his garments, threw himself on the floor and poured ashes on his head. This return home is not even indicated anywhere by Shakespeare, but has become common in performance, though handled with much more restraint in most instances (as Kahn does in this production). After all, Shakespeare does make Shylock's feelings known in his own good time...
...news of the Summit should in itself be a measure of reassurance. Johnson was no more the plains-Texan wheeler-dealer than was Kosygin a shoe-banging Khrushchev. Both men demonstrated that they are able to survey, if not to solve, the overriding issues with acumen and restraint...
...Uncle Tom." At the height of the Tampa riots this month, Community Relations Commission Director James Hammond cannily located five Negro gang leaders, all but one of them with police records, outfitted them with white helmets and arm bands, and persuaded them to preach calm and restraint in the streets (TIME, June 23). As the volunteer patrol grew to 150, the leaders were astonished at its popularity. "In my neighborhood," said one, "as many as five or six guys would share one helmet. They'd say, 'Hey, man, it's my turn to wear that...
...other messages on the hot line, and it underscored a noteworthy point. Though the Israelis and Arabs were able to launch a small but ferocious war on their own turf, the key to a big war remained in the hands of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Given prudence and restraint on both sides, the key will not be turned...