On NASA TV, a commentator following a well-rehearsed script was undercut by a slightly muted background track looped into Russia's mission control center outside Moscow: "Booster failure!
And when you see her in it, it's so full of meaning and warmth and life against a relatively muted background".
"Laser Beam Makeup" features a bluesy soul melody, muted background vocal harmonies and spoken word lyrics reminiscent of "Dead Man's Curve". The melody segues to singing and an industrial rock melody.
Supporting Mr. Fekete is a richly imagined collection of characters who fill in the muted background of this staging with vivid color.
His idea was to combine a three-dimensional puppet Paddington with two-dimensional cardboard backgrounds and supporting cast, with Paddington the one colourful character set against muted backgrounds, rather like an early Peter Brook stage set.
Kevans's portraits, on oil-primed paper, with loose, thick lines, muted backgrounds and immediate, direct eyelines, are created from the few pictures that survive of these largely forgotten women.
Vivid mops of red hair and colorful ensembles stand out against muted backgrounds, while stark shadows pierce the sepia-toned light.
As shown in Fig. 13, saturated figures are generally most preferred, colors on saturated grounds are generally least preferred, light figures are more preferred on dark backgrounds, dark figures are more preferred on light backgrounds, and colors are moderately preferred on muted backgrounds (see Supplementary Material Fig. S 7 for supporting statistics of all pairwise comparisons).
Dudamel hovered in the background, presenting a muted color field on which Shaham could make his pastel strokes.
The 40-year-old founder of Universa Investments likes to compare himself to a firefighter, calmly waiting for the alarm bell to ring in his brick-lined office as Bach's cello suites play in the background and a muted television airs CNBC.
No actors were involved — just fog and water, with a muted tone poem as the musical background.
