Sentence examples for muted joy from inspiring English sources

It's a feeling of clarified emptiness, of deep, muted joy.

When it became clear that Mr. Assange had won asylum, the response was a muted joy.

This is why the news of falling crime rates has been greeted with only muted joy.

He stood among the half moon of worshipers, his face alternately showing the heartache of the past few months and the muted joy of this single day.

Although the muted joy of the D major central section affords relief from the deep sorrow of the outer sections in this interpretation, the appearance of the Christmas ditty "Vom Himmel Hoch da Komm Ich Her" ("From Heav'n Above I Come to Earth") seems almost incongruous.

When taxed by a large salmon, the drag makes a distinct whirring sound or, in the words of Royall Victor III, a retired Chase Manhattan executive who owns six Bogdans, "the muted joy of exultation".

Either way, the video had our dark hearts swelling with a muted joy.

From the feelsy swells of "Ann River, MN" to the understated umph of "Draft Culture," the album flits between the electronic/organic divide with a muted joy and a flair for evocative tones.