The muted quality seemed more powerful".
Yet as Mrs. Obama juggled her own jobs as a political spouse, her critiques of Republican policies had a somewhat muted quality.
"Journey" is not quite a drama; it has a curiously muted quality that comes together in your head more clearly after the curtain has dropped.
In Hirschfeld's caricatures of the barmen behind their bars, his dynamic line is less exuberant than in later years and has a muted quality appropriate to the Depression.
Carlo Rizzi, the conductor, kept the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna moving, sometimes with a muted quality, sometimes with vibrant clarity.
Kennedy's prose, line by line, is sharp, evocative and often poetic, but the measured precision of her storytelling gives the writing a muted quality, as though it has been benumbed by the characters' despair.
At worst, you could say this gentle opening created a muted quality that weighted the two arias from Handel's early "La Lucrezia," the first of which, "Il suol che preme," got a little yodelly.
More to the point, though, the muted quality of the performance was at odds with the more vibrant renderings of the Clarinet Concerto and the "Linz" Symphony, which made up the rest of the program.
