How To Use Muted In A Sentence

  • Since my parents both commuted a long way from home, long before the word "playdate" ever existed, I spent most afternoons running from house to house, soaking up the sounds, smells and tastes. Jessica Seinfeld: Reclaiming Family Food
  • He was interested in the structure of rings of linear operators and realized that the central idempotents, that is, the operators E that commuted with all other operators in the ring under multiplication (that is, EL = LE for all L in the ring) and which were idempotent under multiplication The Algebra of Logic Tradition
  • He has always liked to stitch his folk songwriting to a muted electronic backbeat, and he retains that sense of cautious experimentalism here.
  • Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms.
  • So how 'bout simply saying a muted but sincere 'Thank you, God' for an honest and smart president who's trying to move ahead by untangling the 'fubar' mess left by the crooks, dummies and wackos who ruled Washington for eight long years. Giles Slade: Obama Without Glamour
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  • In consequence the autumn colours are muted, just soft dusty yellows for the most part.
  • Pasted-in bursts of muted cymbal and guitar are stabbed and splashed against it.
  • Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
  • There was a muted boom as the Captain closed and dogged the ships inner lock shut behind us.
  • Colors are faithfully rendered but a bit muted; this appears to be intentional.
  • To show this, I randomly permuted the values of the HS-series in Figure 9 below, leaving everything else unchanged. More on PCs « Climate Audit
  • The governor commuted the prisoner's sentence of death to one of life imprisonment.
  • Meanwhile back at the London press conference, reactions were a little more muted.
  • The gags almost seem muted by the technical proficiency of a practiced master of cinema.
  • My flatstick liked this newer model's "somewhat muted click". Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • She was given a commuted sentence.
  • This year, ancient Italian men are wearing generously cut worsted suits, either with waistcoat or cardigan, in natural earth colours with muted checks.
  • The anvil chorus of the gnathonic media and their coprophagic gossip columnists soi-disant "journalists" whose conservative exudates have imbrued the age with their mephitic poison, one that might yet prove fatal to us all—may just this once be muted, there being little further to be gained from their unguinous ministrations. Archive 2007-07-01
  • Excessively muted in tone and atmosphere, they seem remote now, as if filtered through gauze.
  • At twilight, the blazing orange sunset turned into a muted pink.
  • The round, muted bluesy guitar is solid and unassuming until it explodes into a dizzying solo.
  • The former must explain how thunderbots are transmuted into sharp pieces of silex., the latter how 'natural stones, rocks, and minerals [...] grow in the earth'. Stone Tools and Arguments Against Design
  • Reid, Utolia and Juris finally break into a rock-like, power chord driven finale that ends with a muted Hagans slurring his way to silence. Ralph A. Miriello: Tim Hagans' The Moon Is Waiting
  • Now the figures in Canada, certainly of the conduct of released convicted murderers whose sentences have been commuted is not as accurate. The Death Penalty—For and Against
  • Earlier this year, the outgoing governor of Illinois commuted the sentences of all 167 inmates on the state's death row.
  • ROBERTS: Turning now to the economy, President Obama sounding a familiar theme these days once again taking a somewhat mutedly optimistic tone in his speech yesterday at Georgetown University. CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2009
  • Though the film was shot in full color, sets and costumes alike draw heavily on muted tones, creating an atmosphere of age and mystery.
  • Like so many other beauty products, styling treatments have come a long, long way: 20 years ago there were products that, when dry, transmuted into white flakes of dandruff.
  • The disembodied voices were most striking - patients' miserable repeated calls for help, muted protests, inarticulate moans, and whimpers.
  • It has the reeled-in pyrotechnics and the muted pacing of an intelligent spy film, but it doesn't have the smarts of one, and instead opts for a clichéd scenario and cast of characters.
  • Under the wage assumption outlined in subsection 3.1, the short-run movement in prices relative to wages is muted.
  • The normally exultant cheers of a vast Scottish Grand National crowd were muted because the splendour of a truly great race was bought at a very dear price.
  • Yes," she said mutedly, her gaze on the task she was doing. Inconstant Star
  • When translated into watercolor on silk, her paintings retain both the muted palette and slightly wrinkled texture of the leaf collages.
  • Estrada's move to soften his stand on capital punishment followed his announcement that he has commuted death sentences to life terms for over 100 convicts.
  • The calmness of the music, too, contrasts with the snapshots of city life, making the potential freneticism of the image seem muted by the accompanying sounds.
  • Silence enveloped the room again, save for the howl of the winds, muted by several inches of ultra-dense hull plating.
  • One of the gentry he used to ferry about, a decent cove who always treated him civilly, writes letters and the sentence is commuted to transportation.
  • It's a text, it has to be said, that is not so much translated — Pound's Chinese "translations" are notoriously inaccurate, though accuracy as such was hardly the point — as derived, paraphrased, transmuted from the eighth-century source (by way of professors Fenollosa, Mori, and Ariga) into a new and startlingly powerful, startlingly alive, English poem. Ezra Pound, “Lament of the Frontier Guard”
  • What they forgot to take into account, however, is that you do not hear the primary charge of a rifle being fired if you are more than 100 metres from it, you only hear the "thwack" or "crack" of the bullet passing overhead, followed by a MUTED primary charge thump (weapon firing). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Their voices are muted, but every so often, one of them will stop and point or make hand gestures while describing something.
  • The idea received a muted response.
  • In the US, however, the European pastoral ideal, rooted in Virgil's bucolic visions of an unchanging Arcadia of shepherds and shepherdesses, has been transmuted by the capitalistic impetus.
  • Jordanian jailed for killing sister over mobile calls AMMAN, Feb 22, 2010 (AFP) - A Jordanian on death row for the murder of his married sister who used her mobile too often in an apparent "honour killing" has had his term commuted to 10 years in jail, a judicial official said Monday. Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
  • ‘Am I mistaken,’ I asked a friend, a 50-something sabra whose son is an Israeli air force pilot, ‘or is the excitement that usually leads up to the holiday muted this year, if not entirely absent?’
  • I didn't drive 100s of thousands of miles per year NoB, but I did drive from North San Diego to LA daily for five years and did a daily circle of most all of the freeways in Houston for a period of time, commuted from Alameda, Marin, and San Mateo counties to The City for a period of years, and commuted from the outskirts of Sacramento to Tahoe or Grass Valley four days a week for a couple of years. Drivers in Mexico
  • Her ocher splotch and muted browns matched the castle.
  • West Texas generally offers landscapes of muted colors - sepia earth and vast sun-bleached skies - but this canyon cradles a riparian forest of big-tooth maple, alligator juniper, and chinquapin oak.
  • Meanwhile, traditional Range Rover cues are transmuted into styling gold: The blacked-out rocker panels and lower bumper clips, the clamshell hood with a cutline running from the narrow LED headlamps to a pectoral hood vent, the integrated front and rear treadplates, the integrated running boards, the defined wheel arches. Evoque: A Range Rover for a Smaller Era
  • Alec Baldwin appears to be channeling the hammier aspects of his current role on "30 Rock", and Steve Martin gives an oddly muted performance that only comes to life during a brief party sequence involving marijuana. Home Theater Forum
  • If a particle permutation P is applied to any state function for an assembly of particles, then there is no way of distinguishing the resulting permuted state function from the original unpermuted one by means of any observation at any time. Identity and Individuality in Quantum Theory
  • The outside pressure it appears to be under is not real, as the relatively muted ‘unhistoric’ reaction on Monday indicated.
  • There is Latin itself, which ultimately failed to outlive the imperium and which slowly transmuted into the vernacular Romance languages.
  • Aspects of his style are indebted to Manet and Sickert, the former in the alla prima succulence of paint application, the latter in muted, at times almost murky, close tonality in the depiction of crowds.
  • Traditional investment banking and stockbroking activity has been muted globally as a result of the European sovereign-debt crisis and concerns about a protracted economic downturn in the U.S. In July, Macquarie said it expected its results for fiscal 2012, which ends March 31, to be better than last year's—if market conditions are not "materially worse. Macquarie May Bid for RBS Aviation Unit
  • She ceased to think, as anger transmuted into passion.
  • The gags almost seem muted by the technical proficiency of a practiced master of cinema.
  • Kenneth nodded sympathetically, and through the trees the track announcer mutedly called for the start of another race. Wake Up, Sir!
  • Here we see Machiavelli's legacy transmuted in Hobbes's philosophy of power.
  • The park being cunningly transmuted from the unreal to the real, by sinister forces. Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives
  • But the celebrations were muted by news that they are unlikely ever to see their children again.
  • Playback itself is fine, though I found the bundle earphones were a little muted in the higher frequencies.
  • In former times it was thought that ordinary metal could be transmuted into gold.
  • A soft, muted noise at my back made me jump and turn around.
  • A larger frame woman would be more flattered by muted plaid, and no one really looks terrific in a completely outsized plaid.
  • Maximum likelihood performs a nonlinear dimensionality reduction, choosing permutations that compact the permuted image vectors into a volumetrically minimal subspace.
  • Audio is muted until the amp has stabilized, so you'll hear no pops or thumps during power up.
  • The cinematography matches well with the tone of the film - indoor shots are muted with washed-out grays and blues, soft but rich colors.
  • A death sentence was commuted to life in prison, then cut to ten years.
  • Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close.
  • The ground was hard and brown and rocky, parched, but the caw of birds from a nearby grove of olive trees muted the sound of my footsteps.
  • The threat contrasted starkly with his administration's previous muted criticism.
  • Waterfall greeted her with a solemn and purposeful symphony - muted strings and timpani rolls and, far off in the background, as though being created by spray and the rising mist, a limpid, shining, flute-like voice joined the music.
  • It is also relevant to know if both consider that Jones has a better bundle, or not, which involves considering other alternatives in which bundles are permuted, for instance. Economics and Economic Justice
  • In the midst of our waiting room muted conversation, suddenly I broke out in heightened laughter after I realized what she had said. Spanish speaking can be fun!
  • The dining room is filled with modern furniture, muted lighting and roomy booths, though the other tables are quite tight.
  • The scurrying tourists with their Nikons and their designer shopping bags are transformed the instant they enter this muted space.
  • The six individuals, who looked fine, healthy and happy in real life were cruelly presented in muted monochromatic colors.
  • Yes, people, the muted-colors aloha shirt is actually typical formal wear here. Kateelliott: Sense of Place
  • The threat contrasted starkly with his administration's previous muted criticism.
  • ‘I am sorry I have to do this to you,’ he heard her muted voice say tonelessly.
  • Subsequently, Dippel turned to alchemy and claimed to have discovered a secret formula by which he transmuted silver and mercury into pure gold.
  • The proposals received only a muted response.
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  • A common sandpiper bobbed on a boulder on the hillside, quietly piping, a muted whistle.
  • Downstairs is dominated by a slick bar, muted colours, mismatched furniture and a dark slate floor.
  • Yet it was possible in still weather to hear the muted bombilation of the sleepless city and when the wind was in the north to count the hammer-strokes of the great bell of St. Paul's. The Green Eyes of Bâst
  • His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.
  • Cheney seems to fear that if our system of justice works, he could be in for some serious, uncommuted jail time. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Could Dick Cheney Go to Prison? (By Ray McGovern, Consortium News)
  • The hallways are hushed as kids move wordlessly between classes, lined up single-file on the right side of each hallway, though they do bop and sashay in muted, youthful excitement.
  • The neglected poverty-stricken landscape of Motown is captured throughout the film by the trailer homes, abandoned buildings and jalopies in shades of muted gray, browns, greens and rust.
  • Downstairs is dominated by a slick bar, muted colours, mismatched furniture and a dark slate floor.
  • Interest from the world's major food companies in bidding for United Biscuits has been muted. China's Bright Food Considers Buying U.K.'s United Biscuits
  • And if we are reacting mutedly, than we're inviting further attacks and further arming of Hezbollah. CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2006
  • Slovakia said his sentence will be commuted to life in jail if he is extradited. The Sun
  • Most of the head tenants and some of the under tenants held on condition of knight service, later commuted into a money payment in lieu of service called scutage.
  • The scurrying tourists with their Nikons and their designer shopping bags are transformed the instant they enter this muted space.
  • Secondly, that final track 'Marais Le Nit' or 'The Night Marsh' (30 minutes or so of a muted chorus of frog calls and thrumming crickets) which seems to have caused to much consternation across the web - to me it acts as a kind of caul that hangs lightly across the rest of the album, an index of the elemental nature of the themes contained within it. The Line Of Best Fit
  • The dining room is filled with modern furniture, muted lighting and roomy booths, though the other tables are quite tight.
  • Matt Busby and Brian Clough outstayed their time at Manchester United and Nottingham Forest, with damaging results, although the depth of the gratitude felt by their supporters meant that criticism was largely muted. José Mourinho joins Arsène Wenger in facing the stirrings of rebellion | Richard Williams
  • They watched as the bright colours of the sky faded and were replaced by the muted pastels of twilight.
  • There was a feeling of unusual excitement aboard Galaxy when the penetrometer was launched - and even the inevitable jokes were muted. 2061 Odyssey Three
  • Words were difficult to pick out, muted by the thick metal door.
  • They gazed in awe at the hive of activity against the muted background clack of typewriter and word processor keyboards.
  • Such a society will see reality as something to be improved upon, perfected, transmuted into images.
  • A death sentence was commuted to life in prison, then cut to ten years.
  • Sitting still with non-reflective clothing in muted colors still works wonders. One of the first rules for selling a product is to make you item different from everything else.
  • What was unassuming and harmless suddenly becomes ironic, transmuted into that elusive thing we call ‘art.’
  • A muted feeling of horror filled his head and the hairs on the nape of his neck rose.
  • He commuted daily between London and Surrey.
  • Bond prices were little changed in modest trading and the dollar was mixed in a muted session.
  • On January 11, the Illinois Governor commuted the death sentences of all of the state's 167 death row prisoners, reducing the majority of them to life in prison.
  • When translated into watercolor on silk, her paintings retain both the muted palette and slightly wrinkled texture of the leaf collages.
  • Then she muted the sound on her stereo and smiled.
  • The colours are bright yet muted, as often found in relatively low budget productions.
  • Her batting average there: five stays of execution, one commuted to life in prison, and two men freed completely.
  • These letters, when exchanged, give rise to a permuted alphabet, and this permuted alphabet takes its technical name from the first two couples of letters, _a_ and Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
  • We see, here, a politics of masculinity, its currency that of resentment transmuted into exaggerated self-assertion.
  • Deference to the Dutch referendum on Wednesday meant that official responses to last night's extraordinary result were muted.
  • Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close.
  • -- that one word, you dog, will explain the mystery -- will show you why I am thus transmuted, TRANSMOGRIFIED, and in 'a state of betweenity. ' Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
  • The muted colours come through clearly and crisply and the occasional uses of bright colours are faithfully rendered.
  • My relief at learning that I'd be staying in the same place as previous years was muted by the realization that this was the end of the line.
  • A muted, tinkling presence throughout, the piano is accompanied by the voices of melancholy oboe and sax.
  • These obligations were initially rendered in kind, in terms of labor or provisions, but were gradually commuted to cash contributions.
  • That anger isn't going to go away, however muted or buried it may become.
  • The muted red, gray and off-white mottled surface of the former brings to mind the texture of sinewy muscles; the monochromatic black installs a simple elegance on the latter. ArtScene: Current California Exhibitions You Should See
  • The band went along to some of the small pro-democracy rallies in the city, but opposition was muted.
  • Dressed with little more than the occasional industrial splurt, Maynard sings almost exclusively in hushed tones and the guitars are all but muted throughout.
  • She glared at him as she pulled down a coffee cup and slammed it down onto the counter with muted anger.
  • Esteban Nuñez, who was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in the stabbing death of college student Luis Dos Santos, had his prison term commuted to seven years by the governor. Latimes.com - News
  • His clothes are in muted colors to allow him to fade into the background and he wears gloves with the trigger finger cut out. 34 High Resolution Photos from The Losers | /Film
  • And, no, omni-present muted gunmetal tones does not count as style.
  • He sighs, the short sound close to the beginnings of muted laughter.
  • The fiction of a tardy repentance absolved the fame and the soul of her deceased husband; the sentence of the Iconoclast patriarch was commuted from the loss of his eyes to a whipping of two hundred lashes: the bishops trembled, the monks shouted, and the festival of orthodoxy preserves the annual memory of the triumph of the images. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • In one direction the word expands into the adjective “satiric,” vaguely referring to any slightly muted expression of hostility; and in the other direction it narrows to a particular literary genre or myth, like comedy, tragedy, and epic, with a characteristic subject matter, style, and structure. SATIRE
  • Muted sunlight filtered through the trees into a small glade on the other side of the stream, and dust particles caught in the soft sunbeams sparkled as they floated downward.
  • Slovakia said his sentence will be commuted to life in jail if he is extradited. The Sun
  • It could not be sold, commuted for cash or offered as security for borrowings. Times, Sunday Times
  • It certainly helps that we've telecommuted from the beginning; if we had started out as a regular company and then tried to institute telecommuting, I think it would have been much more difficult.
  • Building on continental lessons, he developed a technique of using thin washes of colour in muted tones to create an impression of transparency.
  • Only after four or five minutes does the music become loud, and then there is an intense climax, followed by a return to quiet strings, woodwinds and muted brass.
  • The upright cover-drives were easy on the eye, while the superb drives down the ground - between the bowler and mid-on - earned muted gasps of admiration from the locals.
  • His slightest frown might perturb them, his anger terrify them, his command compel them to certain death; yet, on the other hand, not one of them would have dreamed of addressing him otherwise than intimately by his first name, which name, "Hardman," was transmuted by their tongues into Kanaka THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
  • Here were the somatic messages that fed the cauldron; cell reactions by the incredible billion, organic cries, the muted drone of muscletone, sensory sub-currents, blood-flow, the wavering superheterodyne of blood pH ... all whirling and churning in the balancing pattern that formed the girl's psyche. Wild Dreams of Reality, 5
  • The clash echoed around the alley, followed by a muted bang.
  • I thank you, dear old friend," she answered mutedly, "but I do have my own road before me. The Boat of a Million Years
  • As a promise of lurid exotica, the term “Sci-Fi” was apt in the era of magazines titling themselves with words like “amazing”, “astounding”, “thrilling”, “stirring”, “fantastic”, but over the subsequent decades the Barnumesque hyperbole has been muted for a reason. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The former is a jazz march parody that layers high-pitched whistling flute over a muted trumpet and slow, rolling drum hits.
  • It's coloured in Stella's preferred palate: gun-metal greys fading into muted violets and lilacs; lurid cerises and delicate eau de nil.
  • States during the War of the Rebellion and was honorably discharged therefrom, as shown by a statement of such service herewith, and that I have remained loyal to the Government; that I have not perfected a homestead entry for 160 acres of land under any law except what is known as the commuted provision of the homestead law contained in section A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland
  • He bends to the right to reach for the water glass on his night stand and lets out a muted whine of terror.
  • Two of these sets, all generated by computer, get paired off for comparison — and then readers vote online for a “winner,” doing so by assessing the poetic merits, for example, of the permuted lexicon, of the aleatory imagery, or of the oracular meaning, after which excerpts from the winning options go on to become randomly permuted with each other, generating new candidates for comparison. Poetic Machines 03 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • He was invalided out of the Army, his marriage broke up and he commuted some of his pension entitlement for a cash sum to settle his divorce.
  • There are bolts of taupe fabric draped on the windows, and the lighting is muted.
  • Mr Bevans said unlike country house hotels that favour traditional chintzy fabrics, he was keen to keep a contemporary style and the refurbished guest rooms are decorated in subtle, muted tones.
  • There is also an extensive use of mutes, including staggered transitions from muted to unmuted and vice versa, like a cross-fade in recording.
  • The incident so shocked all the students that it muted further protest.
  • ‘Seven Nation Army,’ the opening track and first single, fares the best, with its muted insistency and Jack White's inspired vocal turns.
  • Guilt's malignancy stalks a gas-lit shadow-dance upon the walls, perversity arouses oestrus in the embers of our trance; magic moments muted in taut breath are crushed in weighted consequence, discretion flees the night to heighten senses steeped in self-pity, drowned in self-indulgence. Archive 2008-07-01
  • While it is widely acceptable to object to eating flesh, wearing skins and furs, and sport-hunting of non-human animals, the objection to vivisection is relatively muted in comparison.
  • They advised the removal of older, wooden icons and statues to a nearby day chapel, and created a muted background of bronze and mauve colour.
  • Indeed, history itself is often not taught, being dumped instead into the soft-study mishmash called social studies or transmuted into half-baked courses in civics.
  • Here the funeral procession, muted in blue-black as it is, nonetheless has the same kind of psychological and aesthetic impact.
  • Suit colours for the summer include stone, muted grey, cream and oyster.
  • Others purported to have transmuted metals or concocted elixirs and sold their recipes to others.
  • Here muted lights, soft leather, stained wood and anaesthetic chamber music prevailed.
  • You will hear the leader's muted trumpet with reed backing on the first chorus.
  • We are marvelously constructed of those transmuted elements borne within the fiery athanors of long dead Super Suns.
  • It continues to run on the goggle-box and now has transmuted into a stage show.
  • The huge rotors made hardly a whisper as they coasted, and the engine whine was so muted that the sergeant doubted anyone outside the compound could even hear it.
  • Vaguely, he heard church bells from the city strike their hours, their clear sound muted by the snow and by the rose curtain draped partially over the study window.
  • The corruption does not seem to have muted the country's prolonged economic boom.
  • Baldry's 20-year prison sentence was commuted to three years.
  • Slaves, indentured servants, land owners, and independent Khoisan formed variously permuted relationships with each other and with the natural environment. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
  • However, if the arguments of G were permuted then the former reduction could be carried out. Combinatory Logic
  • He is a doomed, condemned man and his sentence will not be commuted by soft-headed jailers. Schumer asks for U.N. condemnation of Libya
  • All the resolution needed for maximum impact, I thought, was to have its sharp working-class rhetoric muted.
  • Combining a bright color with a muted one, or a plain fabric with a printed one, makes one set of place mats the equivalent of two.
  • They were thrilled at the new wholeness of their apartment - until they realized, from the pathetic sound of her muted meows, that he'd sealed their cat inside the wall.
  • You probably know the look: clean, unadorned lines; high-gloss wood or stone floors; a muted palette of soft gray, beige and "greige" (a bold combination of the two); glass tables; white bed linens; and, at its most sublime, lacquered kitchens with no visible appliances, pots or stray spoons -- in fact, no signs of culinary activity whatsoever. The Comforts of Home
  • Their dangerous, uncontrolled sexuality is destined to be muted by the life-long practice of inhuman austerities and self-denial.
  • EBay's earnings were buoyed by the performance of its PayPal service, but overall results were again muted by its core marketplace unit. What's News: Business
  • In consequence the autumn colours are muted, just soft dusty yellows for the most part.
  • They tussled on the floor, an oddly muted fight as they were both trying to shield the book from damage.
  • The ground was hard and brown and rocky, parched, but the caw of birds from a nearby grove of olive trees muted the sound of my footsteps.
  • When they were condemned to gather firewood from hills, their punishment could be commuted to a payment of 300 coins per month.
  • Alternately, discussions in meetings can be muted, disingenuous, or characterized by personalized arguments that can quickly degenerate into conflict.
  • Colours are tonally muted - shades are subtle orange, peach, salmon, terracotta and teal which strongly contrast with a true red, black, white and deep blue.
  • He likes sombre, muted colours — she likes bright colours.
  • It appears we either have been transmuted to an obvious plutocracy - or worse, a fascist dictatorship.
  • The colors in the exterior scenes in India are bright and deeply saturated, but once the film's tone becomes grimmer, the color palette becomes muted and desaturated.
  • Her butterfly and figurative prints, with their muted colour palette, have a delicate vintage look.
  • For profit -- his life blood transmuted into a wine-supper, or a jewelled gewgaw, or some similar sense-orgy of the parasitic and idle rich, his masters, the arch-beasts. ' Chapter 6: Adumbrations
  • There were other sounds in the distance: the muted shouting, the bleat of llamas, the distant bustle of the town.
  • Additional participants can be brought in while a call is in progress, and loudmouths can be muted with a mouse-click.
  • A small group of white girls from stupendously troubled families (the kids are described as "cherubic" for maximum effect) began meeting in one of the girls 'houses after school — and sometimes in a motel room — to do drugs and service two groups of rough trade, one of local white boys, the other of African-American boys (a recent prison inmate among them) who commuted from a different part of the county to avail themselves of the girls. Are You There God? It's Me, Monica
  • When he finally did, they were thrilled at the new wholeness of their apartment - until they realized, from the pathetic sound of her muted meows, that he'd sealed their cat inside the wall.
  • The threat contrasted starkly with his administration's previous muted criticism.
  • The initial corporeal silence of the wound, the muted mark of the sword's wounding penetration, is not alone sufficient-there cannot be, as Derrida writes of Artaud, "stigmata … substituted for the text".

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