Sentence examples for strikingly muted from inspiring English sources
In Washington, the reaction to the election was strikingly muted, even restrained.
It was a strikingly muted response from a movement that, less than a year ago, thought it had finally reached the gates of political power.
The hosts Captain Kholi called all heeded his advice, and most other voices in the state-owned and pro-government news media across the Arab world were also strikingly muted, even unemotional, about the status of Jerusalem.
Clark had said he wanted to play, but his public lobbying was strikingly muted for a gregarious and outspoken player, an indication that he, too, was worried about what could go wrong if he played again at that altitude.
Even though the report was in the works for weeks, and American intelligence officials contributed to it, the administration's reaction after its release on Tuesday was strikingly muted, both in public and in private, given the high diplomatic and military stakes of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weaponry.
The New York Times, in a report from Washington last week, described the White House's reaction to the implications of the report (the I.A.E.A. calculates the Iranians now have enough fuel on hand to produce four nuclear weapons) as "strikingly muted" — or what President Barack Obama's critics might call leading from behind at its faintest.
They aren't very good, apart from displaying a strikingly talented way with filmy texture and muted color.
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And considering the man everyone was celebrating, there were strikingly few political statements, aside from the occasional muted antiwar remarks.
For a pianist sometimes described as "thundering" Beethoven, his Waldstein was strikingly reined in, with the first movement growing in assertion through a range of muted yet shifting dynamics, the Adagio admirably sparse and Spartan, and the rondo, after a breathtaking transition, launched with unpretentious grace and at a sensible speed so that nothing seemed rushed or hectored.
