There was only muted colour, little sparkle, and the merest hint of bare flesh: nothing to distract from the central message of wrapped-up winter polish.
"Prelude In D Major" suffuses warmth, sparkling muted energy and a delicious sonority oozing with finesse and raining washes of tonal flow.
English National Ballet's Nutcracker is a muted production lifted by sparkling dancing.
His show is set against a backdrop of muted browns and reds, sparkling glass, Asian motifs, dark tropical woods.
The actors sparkle, even in muted form, but the Berkeley they inhabit feels a lot like upscale Brentwood, minus the Lexus sports cars and nanny cams.
An overcast sky muted the dawn light and allowed the young photographer to capture the subtle colors of the duck's plumage as reflected lights from the village added a golden sparkle to the ripples.
Sadly, many of these women don't even realise the Pill is to blame, and battle on for years, their sparkle dulled, their sex drive muted, before making a change.
Uggie, the canine star of "The Artist," whose playing dead, face-pawing, brave galloping and muted barking helped bring a sense of old Hollywood sparkle to the black and white silent film, has received remarkable support from internet fans eager to see the Academy Awards acknowledge his on-screen prowess.
Tormey and Margolis chose a more muted metallic theme mixed with nudes, and plenty of reflective light for a natural sparkle.
You can still hear the traffic, but it's muted, and the sun shines and all you can see is sparkling mosques and pyramids.
Of special note are Oregon baskets made of birch bark and covered with netting with subtly sparkling beads, and Native American-looking smoke pots in muted earth tones featuring animal figures.
