I was watching the muted television: terror attacks in Saudi Arabia, gun battles outside Najaf, Special Forces operations in Afghanistan, Memorial Day ceremonies in America.
Fukami comes forward later for a very Mo Tucker moment, delivering artlessly seductive vocals on the muted 'Hold Your Terror Close'; otherwise, this gig progresses hell for leather towards the booty-shaking, sunshine pairing of 'Bottle Rocket' and 'Ladyflash'.
The wanderer's cry forms an O of terror but muted by the slanted snow and a fear that is farther than panic.
Trumpets and drums sounded muted and the anticipated joyful terror of "Et resurrexit" appeared reticent.
Yet, through the shaking lens of a camera and the shrill voice of its narrator, a Lovecraftian terror that, although muted, has undeniably asserted itself into our Canadian psyches.
There are big cheers when Obama talks about nuclear disarmament and dealing with climate change, while the crowd's response to "defeating terror" is noticeably muted, either because it's vocabulary clearly meant for the viewers in the United States or because of its implications for German troop commitments in Afghanistan, which the senator goes on to talk about.
As if hitting their own emotional puberty, their jubilant kids-party vibe of huge balloons, massive waving hands, singing nun puppets and dancing Santas has been muted in the wake of Coyne's break-up album The Terror.
Worse, Mr Kerry's sensible centrist instincts are muted by a need to appeal to the left of his party and by a terror of tackling difficult issues.
But muted voices speak also to a different New York, whiter and more middle-class, chastened by the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and more tolerant of tough tactics to tamp down crime.
After the Sept. 11 terror attacks Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, realigned Moscow's foreign policy toward the West and muted Russian objections to NATO expansion.
