Sentence examples for muted power from inspiring English sources

The New York Choral Artists offered muted power.

Instead, attired in a lovely dark blazer and muted power tie, he looked more like a gracefully aging banker who happened to look a lot like Steve Martin.

The star-studded fund-raiser on Friday that he organized for victims of the Haiti earthquake was a study in carefully muted star power.

She muted her power to create a more informal, intimate attitude, making her voice sound ragged and occasionally uncertain, if still essentially operatic.

When Lola Astanova joined the Orchestra of St . Lukes on Wednesday at Alice Tully Hall, her playing often sounded labored and muted, lacking the power and rich sound that are essential components of a successful rendition of these tumultuous Romantic works.

Over the years, its botched defacement intensified rather than muted its accusatory power.

The effect is often lovely, but its power is muted.

Keeler's power was muted by playing his career in the Dead Ball era.

Power's muted entry into the Obama Administration — on the National Security Council — in January, 2009, entailed long hours and limited influence.

In America, Obama writes, power was muted; in a place like Indonesia, it was "undisguised, indiscriminate, naked, always fresh in the memory.

Experts said the earthquake's power was muted by the location of its epicenter, which was not only 20 miles offshore Miyagi prefecture, on the northeastern Pacific coast, but 40 miles beneath the earth's surface.