Sentence examples for rather dampened from inspiring English sources

I left Hellen's with rather dampened spirits and a coughing spell.

It said it was exploring "alternative clearing arrangements".That rather dampened the announcement of LC Hs and Clearnet's engandment, whiClearnetafter two years of ruminations over how to satisfy national and European regulators and reconcile the mutual ownership of the LCH with Euronext's joint-stock arrangengagement

The goal rather dampened spirits at the Liberty Stadium, though the feel-good factor was restored with a fine second-half recovery.

It tests whether its introduction has fostered rather than dampened construction activity.

Mr Brown wants to turn the clock back and to reinvent contra-cyclical fiscal demand management, which was used enthusiastically in the 1950s and 1960s but abandoned thereafter because changes in public spending or taxes were often too late, so they exaggerated rather than dampened cyclical movements in the economy.

In particular, some speech studies did not directly compare self-generated speech with the same auditory stimulation during passive listening conditions, but have rather inspected the responsiveness to other (not self-generated) sounds during speech, finding dampened responses to those sounds (e.g. Houde et al., 2002; Kudo et al., 2004).

I am sure the fault is entirely mine but Offshore left me feeling rather like I had spent several hours on a draughty barge: cold and with dampened enthusiasm for the whole experience.

This is probably due to the rather sluggish kinetics of the redox chemistry within the cell, which also manifests as a dampened absorbance/time signal, with considerable broadening of the absorbance peaks.

But that hardly dampened spirits in Tskhinvali.

Other participants were asked to state a number on a normal scale from 1 to 5. As predicted, a dampened sense of self-importance eliminated the self-control effect: Just like the control group, participants who felt busy but decidedly not important preferred to receive a brownie (58%) rather than an apple as a reward for participating in the study.

Try topping the plastic with a large dampened kitchen towel.