(1) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(2) Serious serial philanderers – the Alan Clark kind of politicians – handle such crises more adroitly than the amateurs.
(3) In an affidavit, he stated: "The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect."
(4) But the courts appear to be drawing the curtains on the bedroom antics of high-profile philanderers by denying the women their 15 minutes of fame, or infamy.
(5) He may not care for effete toffs, but he got on like a house on fire with the posh MP, diarist and serial philanderer Alan Clark.
(6) Druggist, obstetrician, builder, lecturer, poet and philanderer, his career was a chequered and eventful one.
(7) In particular, the portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests that I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect.
(8) Shock value EastEnders: Michelle's teenage pregnancy, 1985 Viewers were kept guessing about the father of Michelle Fowler's child – revealed as Den Watts Emmerdale: plane crash, 1993 The Yorkshire soap began a trend for "stunt" disaster storylines Brookside: lesbian kiss, 1993 UK TV's first lesbian kiss between Anna Friel's Beth Jordache and Nicola Stephenson's Margaret Clemence EastEnders: buried alive, 2008 Philanderer Max Branning is buried alive by his estranged wife EastEnders: gay Muslim on-screen kiss, 2009 Property developer Syed Masood arrives in Albert Square with a girlfriend, but falls for Christian Clarke Coronation Street: tram crash, 2010 The ITV soap marked its 50th anniversary with the most spectacular disaster storyline yet
(9) Tod T Friendly, doctor and sometime philanderer, is a man whose inner self seems hidden from his passing conquests. "
Restraint
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.
(n.) The state of being restrained.
(n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(2) The current study used the restraint model of stress ulceration to compare the effects of a more potent prostaglandin analogue, 16,16-dimethyl prostaglandin E2, with hyperosmolar glucose and antacids.
(3) We assessed the relative restraints that are provided by fourteen currently available functional knee-braces, using six limbs in cadavera.
(4) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
(5) Rats that were subjected to restraint stress for 18 h were found to have reduced myocardial glycogen and blood sugar levels and showed histological changes in heart and adrenals.
(6) Instead of shedding jobs, many employers seem to be favouring pay restraint and reduced working hours as a means of controlling costs."
(7) As Justices Stewart and White famously said, "the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defence and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry – in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government".
(8) Amid calls for restraint from senior politicians and police, the prime minister, Peter O’Neill has threatened to “terminate” the position of anyone going against the government.
(9) Although B-PELLET rats had normal basal morning ACTH concentrations 5 days after surgery, they exhibited augmented and sustained ACTH responses to five different ACTH-releasing stimuli (injection, restraint, chlorpromazine, and, under pentobarbital anesthesia, morphine or sham adrenalectomy).
(10) Restraint produced regional losses of bone most obviously in the proximal tibia.
(11) The committee responses delineated emerging standards governing specific areas of animal use, such as antibody production, induced disease, surgery, physical restraint, and behavioral conditioning.
(12) Nine of the groups were fed nutrient solutions of different compositions, antacid and sucralfate through orogastric tube during induction of stress ulcer by restraint and a cold ambient temperature.
(13) These observations are rationalized taking into account the ionic radii and coordination numbers of the cations and the conformational restraints of valinomycin molecules.
(14) Even without public spending restraint, those pressures will only increase as our population ages.
(15) The data revealed striking sex differences in body image, restraint and food attitudes, even in the youngest age group (12 to 13 years).
(16) Does the restraint required for head or nose-only exposure of rodents to inhaled aerosols or gases alter their breathing pattern?
(17) Behavioral problems resulting in the use of physical restraint is a clinical problem seen in the acute phase of recovery from cerebral contusion.
(18) Later-born cohorts were lower in Restraint and higher in Ascendance than early-born cohorts.
(19) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.
(20) The rate of AChE activity restoration in Gd-7 treated axolotl embryo depends on the level of the enzyme restraint and the stage of the embryo development.