Sentence examples for muted hope from inspiring English sources

The event brought new anguish to the navy, but also a small, muted hope: Might the death of the top uniformed officer finally conclude the Tailhook trauma?

But some who attended the meetings, sponsored by the United Nations, expressed muted hope that small steps could be made on a decades-long journey to reduce the planetary threat of rising global temperatures.

PAGE A10 MUTED HOPE IN BAGHDAD -- Iraqis battered by daily violence expressed skepticism that Mr. Zarqawi's death could bring peace to a country where so many live to fight.

Inflationary worries are expected to send interest rates higher again (which has also muted hopes of an earnings boost from a steeper yield curve, the difference between long- and short-term interest rates).It is not in banks' interests to send their borrowers to the wall, of course, but their ability to be flexible is more limited because of the credit crunch.

As a result, talk of a boycott has been muted in the hope that white legislators would not feel pressured.

Here Fellini's comedy – like much great comedy – works by breaking our hearts open and still finding there the muted capacity for hope.

Serious Sweet portrays intense lives of quiet desperation: it is a novel about hope and muted courage and, at the end of the day, a very tentatively experienced optimism.

But this week, the square has been muted in remembrance and hope.

On hearing any expression of hope, however muted, my mother's reflex is to rebuke the optimist with a hissed, "Don't beshroi".

The not-so-good news is that the recovery is likely to be more muted than the industry had hoped.

No, she says, she is recently widowed — here she looks down at the table, hoping to convey muted grief — and this is a sort of healing voyage.