Sentence examples for muted suffering from inspiring English sources
He told of an atmosphere as brisk and antiseptic and charged with muted suffering as a dental clinic, of a lost race of men who have come to speak only upside down and backward, of vast and by no means impossible projects to remake the world in the image of Yale, of new schemes every day to put the art of communication on a business basis, with Time on top.
If Oscar could have read my thoughts, the Shuar tradition of head-hunting might have enjoyed a sudden revival; instead, I downed my entire portion of chicha with only a muted gasp of suffering.
Call me heartless, but I found Aaron's suffering too muted to make his resurrection cathartic or even credible.
That Crouch refused to celebrate his goal was not very surprising – after all, Peter Crouch is the kind of guy who buys the clean version of Jessie J songs off iTunes – but it did serve to confirm our gravest fears: that football is suffering from a muted celebration epidemic.
But now it seems that Mr. Thompson, who has been muted and low-energy on the trail, may be suffering from comparisons with his commanding fictional counterparts.
It takes five full episodes for Wilkinson to finally be muted by Joe Sr.'s 1961 stroke, and not a moment too soon for suffering viewers.
Though perhaps "suffering" suggests something too acute, something painful and extreme, whereas his condition is more muted: a mild restless ennui, a moderate dissatisfaction rather than desperate torment.
But suffering is suffering.
