The phrase "a subdued form" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is less intense, muted, or restrained in expression or appearance.
Example: "The artist presented a subdued form of expressionism, focusing on subtle colors and gentle brush strokes."
Alternatives: "a muted version" or "a restrained expression".
The rift continues, although in a subdued form.
In "A Tour of the Calculus," Berlinski used a subdued form of this literary careering to much better effect.
The theatrics continued, in a subdued form, inside the Council chamber, where witnesses included restaurant workers, a pregnant bartender and people who sell video games to bars.
Unlike most other mountains in Japan, the Kitami range displays a subdued form characterized by coarse-textured slopes and wide, open valleys.
The Rock Hotel Pianofest, founded last season as nearly two months of piano recitals promoted like rock concerts, returned in a smaller and comparatively subdued form this year.
Layla and Majnun, however, finds him on subdued form.
There are many thoroughly honorable people here who consider all these serious claims to be tendentious lies, to the extent that they have filtered down to them in subdued form it is our goal to enlighten such people.
Washington's obsession with marriage, which has continued under Obama in more subdued form, not only wastes money promoting conformity, but papers over structural deprivation, of which family instability is typically a symptom rather than a cause.
Haddin in particular survived numerous appeals from an effervescent Harbhajan, who returned to form after a subdued first innings display.
Imports fell 0.7% from a year ago, showing a subdued domestic demand.
I've been breathing this stuff into my lungs for more than 25 years and I believe it's created in me a form of hypersensitivity - a subdued, near-permanent, minor-allergy problem - summer or winter, it doesn't matter.
