Sentence examples for muted style from inspiring English sources

Historian Geoffrey Dutton was unconvinced about her choice of subject but nevertheless praised Bellette's "assured if muted" style, while simultaneously dismissing the lesser efforts of her husband.

It's also one of the most discreet smartwatches available – small, with muted styling that goes unnoticed, again like a Casio.

Many of the most compelling ones introduced last week were suitably muted in style.

When Mr. Sawamura later performs alone, his role — very muted in style but compelling — is among the most inscrutable parts of the production.

And Kendrick, slightly lost in Into the Woods, emerges to magnificent effect, her controlled singing (with just a faint register of Streisand when she wants it) and muted acting style supplying complex emotional nuance.

Like the rest of the Lodge, Colt & Alison's is decorated in a muted, classic style, with dark wood interiors and banquettes.

Broad flat areas are painted in muted Gap-style hues -- khakis, moss greens, salmon pinks and slate blues accented here and there by acidic magentas and pinks.

I have to confess that when I heard the muted, Burial-style chords and Raffertie's ethereal voice crooning "when we touch..

Nobody else except Mr. Madoff projects so surely here, but Ms. Lentz's more muted, remarkably fleet style lodges in the mind.

These first-time buyers, many of them furnishing dorm rooms or refitting bedrooms in their parents' homes, embrace a vivid, upbeat aesthetic more than the muted Pottery Barn style of their baby boom parents.

Though Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was the acknowledged master of the illustrated gift book, he specialised in English and Nordic themes and the opulence and gaudy colours of the orient did not suit his muted and gnarled style.