Sentence examples for muted emphasis from inspiring English sources

While the overt religiosity of most of the attendees felt a bit strange to a devout secularist like myself -- it's been a long time since I've shared a meal with people who say grace -- I was encouraged by the muted emphasis the conference placed on culture war issues, as evidenced by the program.

In more recent plays based on local history and on contemporary events, the assumption of cosmic harmony has been muted, and emphasis has shifted to depicting human conflicts nationalist versus Western colonialist, modern daughter versus conservative parents, for example that may or may not resolve happily.

There is an emphasis on the earlier years, when the albumen print added a grainy glamor and muted sexuality to the beefy limbs of iron maidens with names like Texie, Vulcana, Sandwina, and Elvira Sansoni.

TV muted.

The colors were muted.

Amplified, then muted.

Trading operations are muted.

The noise was muted.

Emotion is muted.

The colors are muted.

Now that seemed muted.