By contrast, Jack Lithgow is an emotionally muted man with a rigid, monochromatic view of the world.
It has all the parts of a Clifford Odets or William Saroyan play from the nineteen-thirties: the collision of ethnicities, the comedy of the muted man in the noisy city, the baffling but eventually benign role of the subway — a night passed in Central Park was cold, certainly, but not brutal, and the policeman on the train was a reliable friend.
O'Brien, of course, remains too modest, too muted a man to accentuate his deeds with superficial personal flourishes.
As men age, the response of the testes becomes more muted; for men over the age of forty, the levels of testosterone in the bloodstream decline, on average, by about 1.2 per cent each year.
But Mr. Bateman's self-diagnosis does speak to the fact that his recent career comeback, following a lull that lasted his entire 20s, has mostly taken the form of supporting roles in high-profile projects ("Juno," "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Hancock") and ensemble comedic work in which he invariably plays a relatively muted straight-man role.
It makes me wonder, will we see the same Roland S. Martin we all know and love, or will we see a lesser, muted, more cautious man who had the "ish" slapped out of him.
"So in her designs, she borrowed the ease, comfort and muted palette of men's clothes to create a style of pared-down elegance for women that liberated them from furbelows and froufrou confections".
They found that those who had exercised before the shot generally displayed higher antibody levels, although the effect was muted among the men, who, as a group, had responded to that year's flu vaccine more robustly than the women had.
Sexual knowledge was so muddled and public discussion so muted that many men and women did not understand there even was a difference.
For all Kearns's heroic sacrifices and heartbreaking missteps, the film offers only a muted sense of the man, whom it turns audience-friendly for only a moment of triumph.
Inevitably the conflicts that fuel the play — between Macbeth and his foes, Macbeth and his wife, Macbeth and the brutal fate his actions have brought about — feel muted by the one-man, many-voices concept.
