Sentence examples for muted confidence from inspiring English sources

Parker never looks quite like a woman, but Mr. Izzard's muted confidence while wearing women's clothing goes a long way toward engendering believability, even if it's only momentary.

He moves the picture back and forth between the contradictory archetypes with muted confidence, understanding that these men, who might have had no tolerance for each other decades earlier, can now make a space in their lives.

He moves the picture back and forth between the contradictory archetypes with muted confidence, understanding that these two men, who might have had no tolerance for each other decades earlier, can now make a space in their lives.

Zach Witton, deputy chief economist at EEF, the manufacturers' organisation, said: "The news wasn't wholly negative, with bright spots including transport equipment doing well thanks to a backlog of aircraft orders and manufacturers still maintain some, albeit muted, confidence about their longer-term business prospects".

If Strether spends "The Ambassadors" vibrating to every muffled confidence and muted gesture, Bea Nightingale ends up being a dynamo of agency.

A muted report on consumer confidence from Reuters and the University of Michigan underscored concerns that battered consumers were not ready to lead the United States out of recession.

He added: "Consumer confidence is still muted and many would-be buyers and sellers are sitting on their hands until the economic situation improves".

But the self-satisfied tone of the document is muted compared to the unbounded confidence of the security minister Admiral Lord West of Spithead on yesterday's Today programme: "No country has ever done this before..

7 Muted Called on sound mute.

SCC head of policy Garry Clark said there were "some positives" to take out of the first quarter's figures, but the "muted signs" of improvement in the economy required confidence from businesses and consumers to spend and invest.

Further, and to my great surprise, confidence in the business community appeared muted, and outright hostility and resentment towards the banking community ran across all sectors of society.