If Mr. Putin's objections to Mr. Bush's action are muted, it will mark a pronounced shift.
Goncharova's stage design was radically simple, the stage reduced to two muted colors marking sky and earth.
(In the score the muted trumpet is marked pp, and the flute quieter still, ppp).
The bicentennial observance of Haiti's independence, on Jan . 1 2004, was muted and was marked by street demonstrations.
The stories are artfully constructed and share a muted gothic tone marked by the same "heightened, crawling quality" that one of Mantel's narrators, a writer, finds at a moldering hotel.
With the European Central Bank also dropping the first hints that it may soften its stance on interest rates in response to the EU's dismal economic performance, financial markets followed the muted trading that marked the anniversary of September 11 with a day of retrenchment.
Instead, McDonald's is adapting to a new era, creating an experience marked by muted colors, wooden tables and faux leather chairs.
A circling helicopter and the enthusiastic squeals of riverfront revelers interfered with pale slivers of sound played on muted instruments at dynamics sometimes marked at quintuple piano: an improbable notion of near-silence.
Mulling it all over this week, the Scots marked, in conspicuously muted manner, the anniversary of the original decision to throw in their lot with their southern neighbours.A careful reading of the polls, however, suggests that the Scots are a long way from walking out.
Market reaction to the P.M.I. was muted, as many countries in Asia and Europe were marking the Labor Day holiday.
