Sentence examples for appropriately muted from inspiring English sources
The lighting is appropriately muted.
Both teams are out of playoff contention this season, and the vibe was appropriately muted early on at chilly Candlestick Park for the Bengals' first visit since 1996.
Audi is mounting a credible challenge to Honda's supremacy in teasing gorgeous tones from four-cylinder engines, with the standard 2-litre turbo providing a stirring – if appropriately muted for a premium luxury coupe – soundtrack.
While Mercedes were celebrating their victory, albeit in appropriately muted fashion, Marussia president Graeme Lowdon, looking drained but still holding himself together, was holding an impromptu news conference with a small number of British journalists.
(It's no coincidence that Marela dreams of visiting Moscow, just like the title characters in one of Mr. Cruz's earlier works, "Two Sisters and a Piano".) And each of the actresses brings out appropriately Chekovian shadows of regret and muted desire.
At a casual restaurant, warm, muted colors will look appropriately inviting.
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She presented herself as exceedingly professional and unprovocative (her teal suit was conservatively cut, her bob was appropriately news-anchor-shaped, and her lipstick was sufficiently muted), but her mere presence was still offensive.
Fine acting (especially by Jean-Pierre Richard, as an anti-Semitic drama critic), restrained direction, and Nestor Almendros's beautifully muted color cinematography lead smoothly to a satisfying, appropriately theatrical conclusion.
Mr. Bloomberg — wearing a tie that was appropriately neither red nor blue, but a tasteful purple — took a muted role in the day's proceedings, appearing on a crowded panel to discuss the dry details of reforming the electoral process.
