Sentence examples for a muted feeling from inspiring English sources

There was a muted feeling that there was no way this time could be made up.

Otherwise, the conference had a muted feel.

These evocations suit the Undead mission to some degree — the festival makes a point of celebrating what's already there in front of us — but it lent the evening a slack and muted feeling, as if to suggest that the real action lies somewhere else, some other time.

In "Isle," performed to music by Henry Purcell, Mr. Soleau offered a well-crafted romantic duet full of muted feeling.

But in keeping with the muted feeling and fatalism that mark every character in the book, he accepts, as does Ganga, though neither seems particularly excited about it.

But the idea here is not to create too much wretched excess, but to remain within the neat columns and muted feelings of a New Yorker short story.

Together the two pictures suggest some of the elements common to artists working in a geometric mode in North and South America: a blending of local and trans-Atlantic sources; a fundamentally urban sensibility; and an awareness of art's use as a vehicle for abstract ideas and muted feelings.

Colors: black, or maybe a muted earth tone.

But Oliver's line was also a muted challenge — one that left my own fluency in international politics feeling mighty exposed.

Ms. Wilde, fetching in a muted blue dress with a fitted bodice and a lattice-like layering on top, was feeling chattier.

It was a muted conversation.