Sentence examples for often mute from inspiring English sources

This style is peculiarly suited to capturing grief, which is irrational, physiological, mutable — and, often, mute.

Our system of government has creaked to a halt; the official opposition is divided, confused and often mute.

His foster parents were often mute and disoriented, and the burden of raising him fell on his maternal grandparents.

A sleepy darkness creeps in and colours often mute to greys.

Yet today, ironically, NLRB rulings about financial core status and other issues often mute the union movement.

I find that freezing often mutes the flavors, so you might have to add salt and maybe a squeeze of lemon to perk it up.

Clinician D: There's that partner dynamic kind of thing and that spirituality is often very much mute to a lot of partners, even when they're discrepant, they're still a blank between the two.

Kelman's narrators are often men of the working, or non-working, class: inward, perceptive, bitter, and frequently mute.

Gold was secured, often by mute barter, at the southern limits of the empire and was conveyed to the empire's capital, where a Muslim commercial town developed alongside the native city.

A shy child who often remained mute even when she most desired to speak, she was stunned when her mother somehow intuited her daughter's desire to be an actress.

Filmmakers like the DuPlass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynne Shelton and Lena Dunham often have mute, tentative or socially withdrawn characters who can't make sense of the world (the film, Jeff Who Lives at Home, for example is typical -- a 30-year old slacker emerges from his shell by saving someone's life).