All are sites of post-toilet-use cross-contamination, where traces of an "other" linger, causing the public-restroom user to wonder, "Who was here before me?" The public restroom's unsavory connotations have long muted its study in the academy, but in 2007 a rogue enclave of scholars declared it worthy of a place in the discourse.
It's too muted and studied for that.
In turn, researchers are sensitized to the ways in which these kinds of variation are being muted in the study of standard models.
In that study, muted baseline expression of mCD14 [see Supplemental Material, Table 1 (doi:10.1289/ehp.1002543)] was associated with significantly reduced pulmonary function (forced expiratory volume in 1 sec; FEV1) with each interquartile-range increase in PM2.5 concentration.
Over all, it was a concentrated study of muted sportswear for the urban woman.
But in spite of Lustig's assertions that he has proved his thesis, the reaction to the study was muted.
English, the language he spoke with his father, was "the muted green of his study carpet, the faded brown of his tweed jackets".
The entrance to the garden, with its frozen ivy cascading down the wall, its hedge of blue-green holly and the winter jasmine beginning to bloom, was a study in muted colors and variations in texture.
Twachtman's study in muted greens "Arques-la-Baille" (1885), with deftly painted reeds standing out against smooth, receding planes of pond water, a hazy hillside and pearlescent gray sky, is the Western equivalent of satori.
In this case the beauty of the Blu-ray edition lies in the meticulous re-creation of the original color palette: the film was not a candy-colored travelogue but a relatively naturalistic study in muted browns, blues and greens, with Minnelli reserving the flamboyant reds that were his trademark for emphasis.
