The cotton shirtings with their muted colours are a terrific buy for the summer. |
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By adopting a muted form of cultural relativism, the scientific establishment seeks to coexist with other points of view. |
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Its Spanish colonial architecture consists of arched facades, muted plaster exteriors and trellised courtyards. |
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Already the air was warm, underscored by a chatter of birdsong and the muted clop-clop from their horse's hooves. |
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Derby's victory perhaps made the award of the Premiership trophy to United more muted than it might otherwise have been. |
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The sudden modulation brings a galaxy of woodwind delights against muted, pointed strings. |
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They show up in blue shirts, wool ties, moleskins and muted sports jackets. |
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They tussled on the floor, an oddly muted fight as they were both trying to shield the book from damage. |
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Colors seem to be unnaturally muted, so that the entire movie has a soft, bland look to it. |
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Her outfits and blokish humour are viewed with muted approval, although even she is eventually portrayed as self-serving and unreliable. |
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Here the funeral procession, muted in blue-black as it is, nonetheless has the same kind of psychological and aesthetic impact. |
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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. |
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Sounds are muted with dull explosions and gunfire, and the music is very dreary. |
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For a moment, every sound was muted by the pressure of the water, of bubbles kicked up by her uninvited presence. |
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To keep the drums from becoming overpowering onstage and in the mix, they were muted with a set of SoundOff drum set silencers. |
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He has aged remarkably well, his manic oddness muted by experience and dry wit. |
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But the celebrations were muted by news that they are unlikely ever to see their children again. |
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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. |
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Any exuberence felt was muted by that dull pain of having hurt someone I care deeply for. |
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But he muted his enthusiasm when it appeared that the stance might hurt his party in the elections. |
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Their voices are muted, but every so often, one of them will stop and point or make hand gestures while describing something. |
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There was a muted laughter from their direction that quieted only slightly as he neared. |
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The days were getting shorter, I noticed, as my muted footsteps echoed in the hallways. |
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The muted voices he could suddenly pick up from the corridor sounded animated. |
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There was always a slight murmur, like the muted buzz of wasps in their nest. |
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The bassoonist made the piece a thing of beauty, accompanied by the three harps and muted strings. |
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Elsewhere muted trumpets enter the mix evoking images of the American southwest. |
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Quiet strings, piano and muted organ provide the background for the majority of the hushed tracks. |
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The former is a jazz march parody that layers high-pitched whistling flute over a muted trumpet and slow, rolling drum hits. |
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Pasted-in bursts of muted cymbal and guitar are stabbed and splashed against it. |
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There is something liberating in the familiar keyboard inflections, earnest handclaps and muted but driving drums. |
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McDonald treats the song, bathed in gliding strings and muted horns, as an impressionist tone poem. |
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You will hear the leader's muted trumpet with reed backing on the first chorus. |
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This stripped-down affair featured singer Kelly Jones on acoustic guitar, accompanied by piano, muted electric guitar and electric bass. |
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The guitars are flat and muted, the vocals spare and disaffected, and the theatrical, climactic scream-along choruses are absent. |
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Guitars are coated in reverb and delay, and in the distance muted drums pop and clunk along. |
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He sings it and throws it away as a party piece, with Wynton growling away on a rather intrusive muted trumpet. |
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What comes, instead of the dials being turned up a notch or two, is that a muted trumpet joins in. |
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Perceptions are muted and muddled, the passions cool, and thoughts drift to the dreary. |
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The band went along to some of the small pro-democracy rallies in the city, but opposition was muted. |
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She glared at him as she pulled down a coffee cup and slammed it down onto the counter with muted anger. |
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Extroverts often prefer red and bright colors, while introverts opt for muted hues, such as blues and violets. |
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That period of time between dusk and night creates some beautiful shapes and shadows as well as muted colours. |
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The aquarelle painting on the wall and the muted lighting really make you feel at home. |
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Construction of the extension, which will be in muted colours and fully landscaped, will begin in late August, on completion of legal agreements. |
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The muted colours come through clearly and crisply and the occasional uses of bright colours are faithfully rendered. |
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The colours are muted so that the chocolates and greens sit perfectly with the faded pink and antique blue. |
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Seven weeks' hard labour, muted colours and Gustavian furniture have given this city flat a country air. |
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With muted lighting and comfy leather sofas it has its discreet corners but it's better to be out in the open for A-list celeb spotting. |
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Pashmina shawls are usually bright red, green, muted beige, or oatmeal in color. |
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He added that the extension had been designed to ensure it was unobtrusive on the skyline, using muted colours and including landscaping. |
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I know it's a residential area, but I'd keep it tasteful, use muted colours and so forth. |
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As always I marvelled at the display of texture and muted colour that would humble the most dazzling painter. |
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The colours are bright yet muted, as often found in relatively low budget productions. |
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Her butterfly and figurative prints, with their muted colour palette, have a delicate vintage look. |
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Colors often look muted and washed out with there also being a slight degree of edge enhancement rearing its ugly head. |
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Its basically an oversized shirt, and overpriced at that, but I dig the slouchiness and the cut out shoulders and the soft muted grey. |
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She was highlighted in the muted glow, bringing her features out in sharp contrasts. |
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A muted feeling of horror filled his head and the hairs on the nape of his neck rose. |
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It's a stunning scene, but so muted and unsensational in its presentation that you're hard put to know how to react. |
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Fall Frost Coming, painted in 1966, is a large canvas that features muted trees with soft edges. |
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The somewhat muted image exhibits a fair amount of film stock grain but with a warmth many britcoms seem to lack. |
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The colour palate is comprised of muted shades of blues, yellows, reds, and greens with more vibrancy found in London than in Paris. |
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Protesters may follow the hunt, on condition that loud trumpets, drums and hailers are replaced by muted clarinets or harps. |
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Quite a bit, but either the cant or the pitch or the structure curiously muted it. |
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Deference to the Dutch referendum on Wednesday meant that official responses to last night's extraordinary result were muted. |
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The muted, playful tone feels off, contrasting harshly with the mysterious slamming doors and the solemn tune Marianne plucks on the piano. |
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The colour scheme is muted but for vivid splashes of red, with most shots dominated by looming shadows, towers or circling carrion crows. |
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A larger frame woman would be more flattered by muted plaid, and no one really looks terrific in a completely outsized plaid. |
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Other dominant squares are painted in a range of olives, muted browns and charcoals. |
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The backlash has been muted, further encouraging Scottish supporters of a ban to push for change. |
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If the applause is muted, it is because the opposition has been so wretched, so hopelessly windblown too. |
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Tales of girls who had gotten pregnant were whispered in the dormitories at night in horror-stricken voices like muted wails. |
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If you grow long finger nails on the hand that fingers the chords, your chord changes will sound awkward, scratchy, sketchy, boring and muted. |
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Silence enveloped the room again, save for the howl of the winds, muted by several inches of ultra-dense hull plating. |
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The bouquet is somewhat muted, but it does eventually yield aromas of black pepper and citrus. |
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No doubt their absence has muted the impact of the class of 2004 on the college game. |
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Builders citinge shades of soft pastels and muted earth tones as emerging favorites. |
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The film ends with a montage of newspaper clippings about American involvement over the next two decades, but its impact is muted. |
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A pearlized lavender sandal or a very muted silver shoe will dissolve without being distracting. |
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The hall, closets, laundry room, bathroom, and den all had their own muted colored doors. |
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The muted red that resulted wasn't pink, but it certainly wasn't as bright and fiery as a pure red. |
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Dark or muted colors will make you look smaller, light or bright colors will make you look bigger. |
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But it returns to a recent past, in a softly lit yoga hall decorated in muted earthly tones and perfumed with incense. |
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When the broad flowing melody is allowed to return, that is eventually interrupted with a striking five note figure for muted brass. |
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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. |
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The six individuals, who looked fine, healthy and happy in real life were cruelly presented in muted monochromatic colors. |
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This reflected her statesmanship and muted her critics when she was accused of intransigency. |
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I am also surprised at the muted and fatalistic response so far from the local politicians. |
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The white pedestal dining table instantly pops against the muted green wall. |
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There is also an extensive use of mutes, including staggered transitions from muted to unmuted and vice versa, like a cross-fade in recording. |
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He often favored cruciform shapes and muted, earthy colors to which he frequently added rust. |
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Thanks to its CDI electronic fuel injection, even the usual diesel engine sound is muted. |
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Playback itself is fine, though I found the bundle earphones were a little muted in the higher frequencies. |
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The room had dark wood panelling, cream paint above the dado, a muted silver ceiling, and comfortably padded brown leather chairs. |
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The gags almost seem muted by the technical proficiency of a practiced master of cinema. |
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On nights when the Kings are on their game, the talk of how the NBA has become hard to watch should be muted. |
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While the musical numbers do sound great, there are periods where the vocals could have been cleaned up to eliminate moments of muted garble. |
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The muted, standard exhaust is now more of a burbling gargle with undertones of thunder. |
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Colours, with somewhat muted browns and grays predominating, are faithfully rendered. |
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Angelos caught her hand, which muted her thoughts and drew her attention instantly in alarm. |
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The new place is attractive, with its muted tropical colors, vibrant wall tapestry and grass-green painted floors. |
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If the rubber grommets that are attached to the chimes are hard or brittle, it can result in very muted tones when the chimes are rung. |
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As time and distance converge, he mixes colours that grow gradually more muted. |
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My only grumble was the additional black peppercorn sauce I ordered was more muted than I had hoped for. |
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There was a muted boom as the Captain closed and dogged the ships inner lock shut behind us. |
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A horrible, somewhat muted screeching noise wakes me from a dreamless sleep. |
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Domestic economic imbalances and disproportionalities are relatively muted. |
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Cloaked in a blanket of muted late-shows, he sleeps alone on the couch now. |
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In Billy and the Bather, for instance, she sets a young couple next to a lone tree abloom on a muted, pastel plain. |
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The overall tone is a muted greenish grey, picked out by the stone statue of the Madonna and the abundant foliage. |
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Soft-toned trumpets and horns enter, menacing minor-key interchanges leading to high flute and muted trombones at the close. |
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Langorous horns, ticking guitars and muted keyboards have been added, sketching out long, graceful arcs of melody over the bubbling rhythms. |
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He was truly despairing, but the muted female voice was firm, but understandably wary. |
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Black levels are rich, colors are muted but hold their own against grain levels, and edges are sharp without degrading into jaggedness. |
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In many cases, the muted hues of her warp and weft don't quite match up, lending each work a subtle textural richness. |
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Bassoonist John Clouser made the Lullaby a thing of beauty, accompanied by the three harps and muted strings. |
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Throughout, Gozi used muted shades of charcoal-blue and bottle-green with splashes of bright apple, turquoise and acid pink. |
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There was a muted roar combined with a yelp from Happy as the Turbo jet engine started. |
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It is possible that a study of gender and race might reveal that racial identity was more muted and class affinity bolder. |
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Francis Towne was a landscape painter whose idiosyncratic style relied on economic and careful pen outlines and flat muted washes of colour. |
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His style became less angular, and he used subtle muted colours, sometimes mixing sand with his paint to produce a textured effect. |
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And with little change in Fed thinking, the financial markets' reaction was muted. |
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She rebounded off the surprisingly hard girl and landed on the floor with a muted cry. |
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Then again, it was a pretty windy day, and voices were muted by the sound of the wind. |
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The muted lighting seeping from recessed light fixtures in alcoves along the wall cast many a shadow throughout the room. |
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By night, these spots glow from within and by day, the mesh captures muted reflections of changing light and weather conditions. |
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A muted, tinkling presence throughout, the piano is accompanied by the voices of melancholy oboe and sax. |
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Audio is muted until the amp has stabilized, so you'll hear no pops or thumps during power up. |
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It's a virtuoso performance full of muted notes, plucked resonance, bristling clusters, elliptical melodies, rolled chords and tremolos. |
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The song opens lento and pianissimo, couched in rootless, muted parallel thirds. |
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He bends to the right to reach for the water glass on his night stand and lets out a muted whine of terror. |
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They watched as the bright colours of the sky faded and were replaced by the muted pastels of twilight. |
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When illuminated with electric lights or candles, the pumpkins radiate the same muted colors as stained-glass windows. |
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It is a sign of the times, I suppose, that the news has been greeted with relatively muted response. |
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In some towns the opposition between the two camps runs deep, but in this region rivalry appears to be more muted. |
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For me, the turgid pace and uneven writing muted any appreciation I might have of what it offers. |
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The dining room is filled with modern furniture, muted lighting and roomy booths, though the other tables are quite tight. |
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Additional participants can be brought in while a call is in progress, and loudmouths can be muted with a mouse-click. |
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The color photography is muted throughout, with the exception of the red, which is astonishingly vibrant to the point of overload. |
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At that moment, from across the river on whose banks they waited, there came a dull clanking, the sound muted by the damp atmosphere. |
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Though the film was shot in full color, sets and costumes alike draw heavily on muted tones, creating an atmosphere of age and mystery. |
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The garden is situated on the undeveloped edge of a large city park, among the muted tones of sagebrush, oak and eucalyptus. |
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In late autumn, the hillside becomes a tapestry of textures in muted shades of gray, silver, and sage green, interspersed with burgundy and red. |
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In consequence the autumn colours are muted, just soft dusty yellows for the most part. |
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The savagery of the attack on Tal Afar even prompted a muted protest from neighbouring Turkey. |
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Along with taupe and chocolate brown, one of this season's hottest shades is a muted heather. |
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There are bolts of taupe fabric draped on the windows, and the lighting is muted. |
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Meanwhile back at the London press conference, reactions were a little more muted. |
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He has always liked to stitch his folk songwriting to a muted electronic backbeat, and he retains that sense of cautious experimentalism here. |
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There is just enough of a techno backbeat and muted changes in the music, without totally distorting the song. |
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Although the celebration will be as muted as a saxophone full of scalloped potatoes considering his dismal last place finish in a field of two. |
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The increase in the leverage ratio in Canada may be more muted when analyzing the market value of debt. |
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When translated into watercolor on silk, her paintings retain both the muted palette and slightly wrinkled texture of the leaf collages. |
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Downstairs is dominated by a slick bar, muted colours, mismatched furniture and a dark slate floor. |
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He works in subdued tones, organizing his compositions into mathematically calculated areas of muted color. |
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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. |
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The newcomer may look like a megalomaniac when compared with your more muted norm. |
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Even the bright colours of the stained glass in the church windows appeared muted and dull today. |
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So far protests from campaigners have been muted, but security around the base has been beefed up with additional police patrols. |
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One rule of thumb is that muted pinks in the warmer tonal families will generally flatter almost any skin color or tone regardless of age. |
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Excessively muted in tone and atmosphere, they seem remote now, as if filtered through gauze. |
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Building on continental lessons, he developed a technique of using thin washes of colour in muted tones to create an impression of transparency. |
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Nothing about Cathy could hide unnoticed, appear in muted pastels, or be restricted to the palette between pianissimo and mezzo piano. |
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Outlining the entire eye with a smoky shadow or muted eye pencil and adding lash-plumping mascara lends immediate impact. |
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Twickenham had been muted and unglamorous all day, and yet a rather tepid presentation ceremony for the Cook Cup could not mask England's satisfaction. |
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If your doorbell is dirty, the ring usually sounds muffled or muted. |
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It was dead quiet, except for the muted voices coming from the gymnasium. |
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Dark shadows under her large, heavily lashed eyes muted their color. |
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Dressed with little more than the occasional industrial splurt, Maynard sings almost exclusively in hushed tones and the guitars are all but muted throughout. |
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And, no, omni-present muted gunmetal tones does not count as style. |
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First there were a host of tiles, partitions and wall coverings to enhance the look of the room with splashes of bright colour, muted hues and soft lighting. |
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Words were difficult to pick out, muted by the thick metal door. |
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Here's a corner that I liked because of the muted colours and textures. |
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Colours can be safe, soft and muted, bold and bright or even clash like crazy as long as your wardrobe is new and tailored to your best look and shape. |
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Her tones were rich but muted, especially a satin of Prussian blue, while she added brilliance to chic black evening gowns with splashes of fuchsia insets or beadwork. |
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She enlarges this image as a laser print and then, following the photograph's main outlines, overpaints large sections of it with flat expanses of acrylic in muted tones. |
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Suit colours for the summer include stone, muted grey, cream and oyster. |
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Within each open container is a creamer cup holding a dollop of latex house paint in a color such as royal blue, pale aqua, lime green or muted yellow. |
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His style became less angular, tending towards graceful curves, and he used subtle muted colours, sometimes mixing sand with his paint to produce a textured effect. |
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My brother hummed turbine noises, but the drone of thunder muted him. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The soft whoosh of the grain drill, the muted jangling of the corn planter, the smell of freshly turned warm earth behind the plow, the warm sun on our backs. |
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In soft muted shades of green and white or rich tones of hot and soft shades of green and pink, caladiums deliver an unbeatable luxuriance of lushness and tropical color. |
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He knocked again and then heard a muted voice through the doorway. |
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Indeed, ultimately it was so muted as to be altogether squeezed out by a social constructionism in which capitalism is seen as responsible for remaking nature anew. |
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If they read Nelson carefully, they'll hear a muted warning to shelve Paul Ryan's budget plans. |
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The city was almost inaudible apart from the muted clang of the trams. |
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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. |
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He stood there, still and quiet, as if taking in all the muted sounds. |
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I awaken to the sound of muted footsteps across wooden floors. |
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But there were few instances of muted huffiness in the crowd. |
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The easily concealable and muted weapon would allow him to sneak up on his victims and get away afterward to kill again. |
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A soft, muted noise at my back made me jump and turn around. |
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The clash echoed around the alley, followed by a muted bang. |
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He sighs, the short sound close to the beginnings of muted laughter. |
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Yet what should have been an orgiastic love fest, was, surprisingly, far more muted. |
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There was much scraping of chairs and muted discussions as the teachers huddled together in four groups and participated actively in brainstorming sessions. |
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Both groups have demanded that he should receive a fair trial, helping to put the dampers on the muted triumphalism that greeted his capture and imprisonment. |
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Likewise, the muted Moonves seems to be craving some wiggle room of his own. |
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World Cup fever in Argentina fizzled out into muted silence as England claimed victory in the latest chapter of a fierce soccer rivalry stretching back decades. |
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The display of gold satiated my thirst of a lifetime, the incredible offers, and the variety of designs, in bright, and white gold, in muted and coppery gold. |
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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. |
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The skies may be grey and muted outside, but the high-ceilinged rooms are full of light, streaming through the barrel vault roof and the large windows. |
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Some other sequences are significantly desaturated and muted. |
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This fissure is expressed by Glatshteyn's use of a polyphonic narrative style in which the autobiographical voice is muted while other voices predominate. |
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Long stretches of peeling-paint one and two storey buildings, with molded plastic signs whose reds and whites are well on their way to turning to muted pinks and beiges. |
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The atmosphere was relaxed and deceptively informal, with low-key lighting and dancers wearing socklets and casually sporty costumes of muted blue. |
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Many of the looks, like a bodice worn with a figure-hugging pencil skirt, remained seductive and sexy despite its muted colors. |
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The color scheme remained neutral and muted, mainly black and white with hints of pink or maroon popping out occassionally. |
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Together with the use of louvred timber screens and reflecting pools, they create a calm and richly nuanced materiality that is enhanced by a muted palette of colours. |
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The huge, panoramic windows looked out onto a stormy cloudscape, rain battering at the glass and sending muted thunder rumbling constantly round the utilitarian bridge. |
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Yet responses so far have been muted, with some activists calling for restraint. |
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That anger isn't going to go away, however muted or buried it may become. |
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There is a photocopy collage of the mirrored image divided by bright colors to the right and a more muted palette to the left. |
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Warm reds, oranges and yellows fade to washed-out blues and muted greens, as the situations change and soulful jazz underscores moments of levity and pain. |
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But the resistance was weak, the outcry muffled, the outrage muted. |
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Even if Fletcher's play is a romantic island fling that offers muted criticisms of the western ethos, Doran's production intelligently views it through post-colonialist eyes. |
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A neutral palette of materials was chosen, including thousands of cubic metres of USM's well designed Modular Furniture in muted shades of light grey and steel blue. |
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Alternately, discussions in meetings can be muted, disingenuous, or characterized by personalized arguments that can quickly degenerate into conflict. |
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The series of 15-minute films, in which the actors' words in Hebrew and Aramaic are muted under a voiceover narration in English, were designed for educational purposes. |
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The general reaction among his teammates was congratulatory and warm, but in retrospect surprisingly muted. |
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When he accepted the prize, he delivered a speech that has been unfairly ignored because his delivery was so muted. |
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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. |
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Within 10 seconds, his target vanishes in a muted cloud of smoke and rubble 7,000 miles away. |
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The Perth trio oscillate between muted country rock and quieter musings. |
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This year, ancient Italian men are wearing generously cut worsted suits, either with waistcoat or cardigan, in natural earth colours with muted checks. |
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Fear over the discovery and stealing of the forbidden books is muted. |
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Knits are central to this look, either hugely textured, fine silk knit with muted multi-coloured stripes, or slightly undersize, a bit like your wee brother's school jumper. |
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The third can at least be muted by some dampening, and by putting sufficient thought into case design and component layout to minimise sympathetic vibrations. |
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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. |
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He then goes on to show the differences between complementary colours, muted colours, contrasting colours and the colours produced by man and by nature. |
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Their proposal has drawn a muted reaction from most observers. |
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The reaction was relatively muted with little open fighting in Pontianak or in the Chinese majority areas. |
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In all these painters, colours are often very muted, with browns dominating, especially in the middle of the century. |
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But the softness, the muted quality in turn became an aesthetic. |
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But their voices were muted by hundreds of anti-war slogans. |
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The exhibition at the Bankfield Museum, Halifax, features felted 'pictures' and cotton organdie wall hangings in muted neutral colours. |
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Designed by Kabe Design, the Gladstone features a muted palette of whispery greys and silvers, spiced up with mustards and bronzes. |
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Instead of translating or dubbing the words, they are simply muted and the dialogue becomes open to the viewer's interpretations and assumptions. |
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Using a limited palette of mostly olive green and muted blues, Dina played with crepe, lace and predominantly gazar. |
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Snake-Eyes, the ninja, is muted by and scarred from a helicopter crash. |
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Even then there is only enough muted sound to keep a seat-of-the-pants driver interested. |
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The former is evident in delicate, soft works such as Shakyamuni I, 2012, in which the Buddha appears to float amidst a muted, dream-like space. |
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When once the starting point would have been a soft ivory the current trend is to opt for muted, darker or even moodier shades of grey. |
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An important remaining question is whether we can ascertain why the disinflations following the 2001Q1 and 2007Q4 recessions were so muted. |
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There were five new sets of Body Shapes, each in a different color from a muted palette of maroon, ocher, and burnt umber. |
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Alternatively you can introduce other subtle spring shades such as sage green, stonewashed blue and muted rose through accessories. |
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His early work is characterised with expressive force through muted tonality and brutal forms. |
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All geometric shapes and muted colours, it glories in the name Sigils of the Staveley Warriors. |
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The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors. |
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Paine's great contribution was in initiating a public debate about independence which had previously been rather muted. |
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Juvenile dolphins have a more muted appearance and become more distinguishable when they mature. |
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And although the debate about GM crops and foods has become more muted in recent months, agrobiotechnology is still making it onto the front page. |
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Rich mixed textures of flannels and knits, combined with patch pocket blazers in muted tones create an effortless European style, the young Parisian professional. |
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The crass cultural chauvinism and blatant flackery that surrounded and fed American pop have not by any means gone from the art scene, but they are muted. |
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The Christmas Eve party is held in a chintzy country house in Regency England, giving reason for gorgeously muted empire-line dresses, dandyish breeches and cutaway jackets. |
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The work begins quietly, with instrumental and solo movements preceding the first appearance of the chorus, whose entry in the low alto register is muted. |
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The rivalry between these two clubs however has been muted due to the fact that the two clubs compete in different competitions and therefore do not play each other regularly. |
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However, A Handful of Dust, later widely regarded as a masterpiece, received a more muted welcome from critics, despite the author's own high estimation of the work. |
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This conspiracist worldview appears repeatedly in right-wing oppositional serials, ranging from muted suggestions, to text that palpitates with paranoia. |
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His Majesty's government's reaction to the German invasion was muted, with the Ministry of Information issuing a press release shortly after the Germans landed. |
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Commemoration of the battle's 2,000th anniversary in 2009 was muted. |
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The plumage of Cologne's green parrots is highly visible even from a distance, and contrasts starkly with the otherwise muted colours of the cityscape. |
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Feminine ruffles on one-piece cutout monokinis, new under-wired bandeaus and halter styles were paired with muted jewel tones in coral, sky blue, lilac, black and cream. |
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The video spot, which will only be viewable by certain groups in the United States, will begin playing with the sound muted when it appears in a user's newsfeed. |
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Many of these designations have become muted with time, as the passions which fired the debate have cooled and most parishes have found a happy medium or accommodation. |
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In fact, during periods of muted interparty conflict, such as the 1950s and early 1960s, presidents may tout the inclusiveness of their party identities. |
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The muted colours of early Cubist paintings are used for the costumes echoing a Picasso harlequinade and wistfully evocative of the age of Diaghalev. |
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There is no doubting that, pre-internet, the sexualisation of children existed and media coverage of both the subject matter and the scale of it was probably muted. |
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