The impressionist lucidity of Ms. Schneider's big-band scores was muted, understandably; still, her characteristic melodic generosity and rhythmic ingenuity came through.
It started, by all accounts, with Proenza Schouler's spring 2012 ready-to-wear collection shown last fall, which shrewdly reworked as stylish and urban the muted earth colors and stylized geometries characteristic of much Southwestern design.
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His characteristic ardor and heroism were, on this occasion, muted.
In order to do so, he muted the country instruments and replaced them with new elements characteristic to pop music, replacing banjo and fiddle with electric guitar.
Neutral tones and muted colors work best because they simultaneously enhance your natural characteristics without distracting from you in a photo.
The muted textures of coastal and suburban New England are skilfully captured, with some characteristic flashes of east-meets-west disjuncture by way of contrast, as when Subhash sees "vivid hues of cayenne and turmeric and ginger" in the autumn foliage.
Cultural characteristics of the human and the environment can be muted while details that specifically project the emotion and experience that is important to the storyline can be rendered fully to stand out.
"Most comedy is based on reducing somebody to one or two basic characteristics and ignoring the rest," Mulligan says, reclining as he watches Letterman on a muted, closed-circuit TV in his office.
In many gryllids the intensity of courtship behavior (rather than the characteristics of song) is the determining factor in male mating success [ 67, 68]; even muted males can acquire matings after proper courtship behavior [ 69].
It is characteristic of Steiner's procedure to complicate the anxiety by learned allusion: "Today, in Western orientations -- observe the muted presence of morning light in that word -- the reflexes, the turns of perception, are those of afternoon, of twilight.
