Sentence examples for somehow muted from inspiring English sources
These objects are on show, but their power to shock and terrify is somehow muted in the minimalist glow of the Victorian galleries.
In this endeavour she has exercised the familiar, cool, fair-minded, gentlewomanly, 20th-century BBC-approved public persona, anchoring her perspective to external references so that what floats up from her own internal energies are somehow muted by her narrative.
Even strong initial statements of a melodic theme -- in, say, the Scherzo of Schubert's Trio in B flat (D. 898) -- were somehow muted, lightened so as to become part of the democratic whole.
It's like the emotion is deadened somehow, muted, even though it's talking about this heavy thing, the "mystery of love".
"This week some people have been suggesting that with ongoing segregation and the many problems we face in our nation's schools that our celebration of Brown should somehow be muted," said Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which led the case.
The photos themselves have that somehow endearing muted look, though unmixed primaries do pop.
But somehow the atmosphere was muted, the glitz a little dulled, the sales figures that bit harder to come by.
The level of care is evident in Hoxton (2000), which is muted in colour and somehow evokes the fragile surface of porcelain in paint, and Christina With Green Necklace (2000), which is obviously indebted to Richter.
