Sentence examples for muted elegance from inspiring English sources

Rowland, a fourth-generation Montanan, has written a family epic that has a muted elegance.

But all the muted elegance of the lodge, the stunning landscapes and Eve's delectable meals would have been for naught if the fishing were less than spectacular.

As clothes that don't date themselves because they have a consistency and a point of view, they've created legions of adoring shoppers attracted to their quality, their ease of wear and their generally muted elegance.

In a city of harsh chrome, glass and ordinary brick, the stately wooden structure, painted a soft yellow with porches on three sides, speaks of another time and has a muted elegance about it.

Those features were designed with muted Art Moderne elegance by the firm Hare & Hare in a project overseen by the Works Projects Administration.

ATMOSPHERE A medium-size dining room past a handsome teak bar has a muted palette and stodgy elegance.

The room, big, bright, and open, is hard to figure: its modern elegance is so muted you might mistake it for an airport business-class lounge.

His constructions, with their Shaker-style elegance and tastefully muted colors, also look as if they could seamlessly furnish Early American-style (or perhaps Arts and Craft-style) suburban house interiors.

The pattern was delicate, a floral and berry motif with a muted color palette that lent it some understated elegance.

Yet even as they tap into elemental desires and anxieties, they remain works of great formal elegance, with carefully penciled, serpentine lines, richly muted color and tightly interlocking, de Kooningesque compositions (Johnson).

It must be said that the Met's renovation of Breuer's icon is a marvel of elegance and restraint, in service to Breuer's muted materials: slate floors, bronze doors, cast-cement ceilings.