Sentence examples for muted emotion from inspiring English sources

Muted emotion, sacrifice, constipation of the soul.

Colombians have reacted to Santos's prize with muted emotion amid deep divisions over the controversial peace deal.

There is the muted emotion in his figures, which one can see in several Ada portraits, and in portraits of his son, Vincent.

The crowd knew all of those songs too, including every rhyme of "Novacane," which laments a culture of numbness and artificiality in the bedroom and on the radio: "Every single record, Auto-Tuning/Zero emotion, muted emotion, pitch-corrected computed emotion".

In flawless prose pitched to the muted emotions of a Victorian gentleman, Vine slowly reveals the sins of Henry Nanther.

Their sensitive compositions and muted emotions sometimes seem almost comforting, as if the pictures depicted a smaller, more manageable tragedy from another time.

The novel's slippery quality and muted emotions struck me as a kind of private stocktaking, the author's personal inquiry or catharsis disguised as plot turns.

If you play it safe, as Fisher does, play it close to the vest, that's what you get in return: muted emotions.

A tiny figure dressed in a red habit, her hair contained under a tight veil, she has a severity that bordered, oddly, on anarchy in that gentle setting, so animated by muted deep emotion.

Yet in this scene, as in others in "The Childhood of Jesus," the reader is inclined to assume that Simón is speaking for the author, in a rare and welcome display of feeling in a novel so generally muted in emotion.

"When they mention Nicole, it's like an aside," Mr. Speirs said, his voice quiet, his emotion muted.