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• Constricted affect is a slight restriction of the range of emotions.
Adia Colar: Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Blunted Affect Adia Colar 2012
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The U.S. Army still deployed just twelve tanks in Europe capable of fighting anyway.22 Constricted defense budgets, the on-again-off-again draft, and a 180-degree turn in public opinion about any showdown with Moscow once Stalin indeed “got the bomb” in 1949—all fed into a nervous minimalism that was allergic to dreamy ambitions.
Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010
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Constricted cycles of loyalty can be seen in any number of current or recent crises -- from Wall Street's meltdown to destructively partisan politics to our ongoing addiction to dirty energy.
Brian D. McLaren: The Ethical Responsibility of Engineers and the Rest of Us, Too (Part 2) 2010
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Constricted cycles of loyalty can be seen in any number of current or recent crises -- from Wall Street's meltdown to destructively partisan politics to our ongoing addiction to dirty energy.
Brian D. McLaren: The Ethical Responsibility of Engineers and the Rest of Us, Too (Part 2) 2010
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Constricted valleys between ridges have waterfalls and rapids.
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Constricted by federal court decrees and lawsuits by health care advocates, he scrapped his reform plan and merely lopped 170,000 to 200,000 people off the rolls.
Obama Wants Bredesen? Really?Health care advocates wonder how Bredesen fits in Obama's vision 2009
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Constricted valleys between ridges have waterfalls and rapids.
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“Constricted throat, pounding heart, couldn't breathe —”
Prime Evil Diana G. Gallagher 2001
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It had taken a lot of argument and discussion with the robot designer, an exceedingly conservative gentleman who was most reluctant to put the slightest restriction on First Law, but the result was Constricted First Law 001 -- CFL-001.
Roger MacBride Allen, Roger MacBride 1996
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Constricted affect and lability of affect are opposite extremes in the variability of emotional expression.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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