When our group's crucial governing document fell to the ground during the transfer between gloved hands, there was a moment of muted group panic.
The wanderer's cry forms an O of terror but muted by the slanted snow and a fear that is farther than panic.
It's redeemed by bleak cinematography, muted performances and understated relationships that convey the panic and despair of those early days, but also the rare, heady dawning of fellowship forged in grief.
And that's why if there is panic in Camp Clinton it is still muted.
Goldsmith's palette is muted but evocative, and his characterisation playful, the nods, winks, panic and confusion of his characters mixing engagingly with winding staircases, vast bookcases, toiling minions and antique tools of the trade.
In the pile of pictures from which this particular one was picked, there are variations on a theme of muted panic....There are looks of self-consciousness, of curiosity, of giddiness.
Investor appetite remained muted".
They absolutely get muted.
