Instead, he continued what had been a notably muted set of weeks since his hugely popular accord with Barack Obama, which reëstablished diplomatic ties between their governments, after fifty-three years of estrangement.
Nobody on stage is supposed to know how to deal with Ariadne until Bacchus enters to rescue her, and that's just how it is here; the others seem almost mesmerised by Mattila the stage animal, even when she is only sitting at the dressing table that, in Herbert Murauer's elegant but muted set, stands in for her rock.
"Cry Old Kingdom," written by Jeff Augustin and directed by Tom Dugdale, is an earnest but muted drama set in Haiti in 1964, when whispers of revolution are beginning to be heard rustling under the iron rule of Papa Doc Duvalier.
Amid all the frivolity, the moments of emotional depth -- Susanna's "Deh, vieni, non tardar," for example, and the moment of the Countess's return at the end of the work -- were muted and set slightly at a distance.
In previous books, Harrison has leaned toward the lurid — incest, the Spanish Inquisition, Chinese foot-binding — but here she offers a more muted tale, set in Alaska in the early nineteen-hundreds.
Within a few minutes I had 100 muted words set up.
He and I don't pay much attention to the TVs on Mondays or Tuesdays, but as it turns out, the Olympic Men's Individual Figure Skating (long program), when muted and set to the Bergin's jukebox, is highly entertaining.
The induction of the DNA damage signature gene set was muted in cells deficient for the ATR homolog, mec1, as well as cells deficient for dun1, which indicates these genes are downstream and targets for the Mec1 pathway [ 1].
Peeling paint and a broken-down wagon appeared in one tatty "Figaro" set; muted lights by Jeff Harris and gray, stony surfaces served efficiently for "Tosca".
But it was the shadowy effects of Klute – a film noir in muted colour – which set Willis on the road to fame, and prompted Coppola to hire him for The Godfather.
