Honking horns and sirens could be heard approaching and fading blocks to the west, beyond the muted hubbub of Times Square.
And on Sunday night, the needle hit its limit — 500 — a point beyond which it could render only the muted plea, "beyond index".
The Dave room faces west across shallow, rolling fields of wheat, while the Rob room looks east towards a field with horses and rabbits – and beyond them, the distantly muted working ports of Harwich and Felixstowe.
In my countryside-dotted imaginings, even enormous families, like the Gilbreths, in the 1948 memoir "Cheaper by the Dozen," had room to spare, because they lived in cavernous spaces, where the evening breeze carried the scent of sycamore trees and, beyond, the sound of muted laughter or pain.
Beyond that, neighborhood protest was muted, though a few admirers gathered last week to reminisce.
All facing the same way, too, as though silently venerating the muted dirty sunset beyond the holy city.
Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
But while Mr. Agrotis and his compatriots may be feeling enormous pain, the broader reaction by investors in Europe and beyond was more or less muted on Thursday, as it has generally been since the Cypriot bailout negotiations burst into chaotic public view the weekend before last.
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Beyond that, the Israeli reaction is very muted, and there are those who argue on the basis of watching Erdogan in action, that this is the right reaction, if the idea is to calm the high tempers in Ankara.
