Sentence examples for muted feeling from inspiring English sources

There was a muted feeling that there was no way this time could be made up.

In "Isle," performed to music by Henry Purcell, Mr. Soleau offered a well-crafted romantic duet full of muted feeling.

But in keeping with the muted feeling and fatalism that mark every character in the book, he accepts, as does Ganga, though neither seems particularly excited about it.

These evocations suit the Undead mission to some degree — the festival makes a point of celebrating what's already there in front of us — but it lent the evening a slack and muted feeling, as if to suggest that the real action lies somewhere else, some other time.

But the idea here is not to create too much wretched excess, but to remain within the neat columns and muted feelings of a New Yorker short story.

Together the two pictures suggest some of the elements common to artists working in a geometric mode in North and South America: a blending of local and trans-Atlantic sources; a fundamentally urban sensibility; and an awareness of art's use as a vehicle for abstract ideas and muted feelings.

A society in which behaviour is codified, language restricted to impersonal formulas, and the expression of feeling muted, is the province of the novel of manners, and such fiction may be produced as readily in the 20th century as in the era of Fanny Burney or Jane Austen.

But the aftermath is controlled, muted and short on feeling.

But around the city, those sentiments were muted either by a feeling of "It's none of our business," or of "That kind of thing doesn't matter as much as it used to".

In contrast, debate in European countries has been muted with an overriding feeling that since the banning of leaded gasoline and lead-containing paints, lead exposure no longer poses a significant environmental threat to health.

The line drew laughs inside an otherwise muted clubhouse, the brief lightness feeling appropriate on an overall positive day, when the club provided further reason for optimism about its stockpile of young, talented arms.