Sentence examples for a subdued version from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a subdued version" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to refer to something that is less intense or in a more moderate form than before. For example, "The film's soundtrack was re-recorded to create a more subdued version for the television broadcast."
During the 17th century, a subdued version gained favour at the French court; it appeared frequently in the stage works of Jean-Baptiste Lully.
Create a subdued version of this technique by hanging polished silver platters or trays on the wall.
His vision for Canvas sounds like a subdued version of the same, and it's not clear what he's aiming for.
He played a subdued version of his recent hit "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore," a clever song built around a self-referential confession: "All the things I've said in songs/All the purple prose you bought from me/Reality's just black and white/The sentimental things I'd write/Never meant that much to me".
His video for the track, directed by Craig Gillespie, is like a subdued version of "Thriller" -- it opens with Cudi walking down a deserted suburban street as ominous string music and "Psycho -esque sound effects set the stage.
This is sung on the wing and also from a tree and a subdued version of this song with more warbling notes is sung by a group of birds at communal roosts.
The electronic music used for a modern building like 166 Perry Street, with its undulating glass facade, is a slightly subdued version of what one might hear in certain clubs in the early hours of the morning.
A far more subdued version of Mr. Borker appeared in court on Monday afternoon.
At 74, she looks like, well, Barbra Streisand, albeit a softer, more subdued version than the one you know from six decades of movies, from her Oscar winning-debut in the musical "Funny Girl" (1968), in which she recreated her Broadway performance as the Ziegfeld entertainer Fanny Brice, to the comedy "The Guilt Trip" (2012), with Seth Rogen.
During a review of the album, the writers of People magazine rated it with three-and-a-half out of four stars and wrote that it "offers nicely subdued versions of her hits" further describing the show as a "magic".
The new film, despite the initial distractions of the recognizable voices crammed into the English-language version (a subdued Matt Damon, a fine Betty White), shares thematic and visual similarities with his earlier work, notably its emphasis on the natural world, its tumults and fragility.
