Clooney learned this self-containment at an early age from his own family.

She's given to emotional transparency; he's a case study in self-containment.

Or, to use a category that has proved useful for me over the years, as a form of self-containment.

Self-containment invites respect, or at least adds to the mystery.

But then her fiction always feels like a tug of war between self-containment and vulnerability.

First, self-containment tends to improve the ability for internal coordination within the unit.

There was something repellent about his surface of self-containment.

What is lost is the character's emotionally charged sense of self-containment.

In particular, Pinter illustrated the self-containment of a theatrical event.

So this aspect of her chart indicates initiative and extreme self-containment.

Both to provide for some self-containment, and thereby minimize the degree of out-commuting.

Further, while this regional self-containment has weakened in some cases since 1997, it does not appear substantially to have broken down.

Provide a high level of self-containment (people working, recreating and living in the same area)

Jackson was a studious kid, geeky, with the self-containment of an only child.

This self-containment is ensured by the use of in-story narration.

The Classic projects self-containment, decisiveness and above all: control.

His humor, charm, even anger, had failed to pierce her hard shell of self-containment.

He had an air of self-containment, bordering on contentment.

His voice shredded under the strain of self-containment.

She possessed an animals self-containment and an animals wary grace.

Their system was based on self-containment and local supply supplemented by bases established at strategic positions.

Her taut self-containment said plainly that she did not trust the Caitiffin.

Hejduk's self-containment, however, is not as out of step with contemporary practice as it may seem.

But for a short span of time, she could handle the considerable strain of self-containment.

Last night she had gotten a look at what lay behind the barrier of self-containment that he had fashioned for himself.