Sentence examples for muted shine from inspiring English sources

Behind the dancer is a wilted bouquet of foil balloons, whose muted shine recalls the gilded mirror behind Chanel.

The walls, lacquered and lustrous, give off a muted shine, and there are funny touches here and there, like the crocodile-pattern leather padding that makes the bar up front look a little like a giant handbag.

You can still hear the traffic, but it's muted, and the sun shines and all you can see is sparkling mosques and pyramids.

Oil leaks from the pipelines shine in gassy, muted rainbows.

And then there is Rosie Perez, who, rain or shine, is about as muted and muffled as a stick of dynamite on a short fuse.

Everything is contained and muted: the fawn luggage, the shining beige bedroom suite, Anastasia Hille's pale, neurasthenic, compelling face.

Mr. Hassler wisely stayed muted for the most part, letting the two lead voices shine as he lent his subtle, unobtrusive rhythmic support.

When chaos does, of course, come, Reilly is able, in the muted and moving lament of the Willow Song, to make Desdemona's stoicism and her goodness shine through her bewilderment at Othello's abuse.

If it has brought him more muted praise at home, the British can be sparing in their praise for prime ministers who shine more brightly off the British mainland than on it.

With no electricity at his farm, he illuminated the crystals with the cloud-muted sunlight that came through the barn window, giving the images a silvery, highly polished shine.

All of this is in muted colours, and gently sketched, drawn figures, full of floating slate greys and snowflakes and barely gold leaves and shining white blossom.