Sentence examples for muted textures from inspiring English sources

The Cassatt String Quartet performed the premiere of Waddy Thompson's atmospheric "Winter Morning by a Lake," whose muted textures effectively illustrated the title.

Poised as though in that half-light between night and morning, heightening consciousness of the muted textures, the music's uneasy feel lifted only gradually, as though a ray of sun finally piercing a veil of mist.

The muted textures of coastal and suburban New England are skilfully captured, with some characteristic flashes of east-meets-west disjuncture by way of contrast, as when Subhash sees "vivid hues of cayenne and turmeric and ginger" in the autumn foliage.

Some of this effect comes with the score as it is played with a muted texture under Ormsby Wilkins's masterly baton.

Mr. Zupko seemed to be tipping his hat to the Stravinsky in the opening pages of "Life Dances," where muted brass textures or hazy low string figures touched fleetingly on atmosphere of "Sacre".

5) Plastic adds an interesting smooth/shiny texture to any outfit, especially when more muted and soft textures are involved.

A former student of the minimalist architect John Pawson, Siggerud is now an architect based in Copenhagen, and in love with the many muted shades – and textures – of grey.

A new exhibitor, Melisa Nicolaides Cassel of Stamford, will offer a vividly patterned sweater, a knitted quilt that is a collage of muted colors and textures, and an experimental nontraditional knitted vessel.

Especially a painter enamored of muted color, desiccated texture and minute detail.

Gardner and the Philharmonia did fine things with its sensuous textures and muted turbulence.

Soft wall textures and muted tones in a museum temper the light and bring out the colors in Impressionist paintings, while hard surfaces dull and flatten them.