Sentence examples for is rather subdued from inspiring English sources

Still, besides the relentless traffic, this town on the western ramp of one of the busiest bridges in the world, funnel to seven major highways, is rather subdued.

It is rather subdued and geared for the serious winter athlete.

Looking ahead, the domestic calendar is rather subdued, whilst the weekly jobless claims will be the big number to watch from the US.

The mood inside the public gallery is rather subdued today as we're listening to evidence from the Care Quality Commission's Director of Intelligence Richard Hamblin, and I think there's a sense we're being blinded by science.

NARY a cucumber sandwich was thrown and the heckling was rather subdued.

The women's group promul gated the slogan "One man one wife". But in the final debate in Parliament women members were rather subdued in their remarks.

SOMETIMES Mumeo Oku would recall what it was like campaigning when women were new to Japanese politics".Yours is the voice from the kitchen," she would tell her audience.The voices from the kitchen were rather subdued.

Jurowski showed great care in the grading and sifting of Webern's textures, and then took equal pains with Mahler's string-orchestra expansion of Beethoven's F minor String Quartet Op 95, even though his rather conservative tempi, presumably chosen to tighten up the rhythmic articulation, meant that the tingling hyperactivity that is such a feature of the original work was rather subdued.

Rush noted that he "seemed to be taking defeat a lot worse than some of the younger lads around me". Matteo, by contrast, said that, after the game, "the scene was one of total devastation" and Fowler says the party was "rather subdued".

During the tough battles in Wisconsin and Ohio last year, among other places, where GOP governors were slashing budgets for public employees -- teachers, firefighters, etc. -- Obama was rather subdued.

The Ferry aesthetic is rather more subdued these days than at its height of febrile Roxy sensuality, and has been for a number of years.