Sentence examples for subdued effort from inspiring English sources

The album was a subdued effort, with whispery ballads that continued along the soft-rock course charted by "Still Crazy After All These Years".

The album was a subdued effort, with whispery ballads that continued along the soft-rock course charted by "Still Crazy After All These Years". A trio of brash R. & B.-flavored rockers, "Late in the Evening," "Ace in the Hole," and the title track, only confirmed the feeling that Simon's muse lacked focus.

Director Andrew Haigh may be riding high this awards season with his latest feature 45 Years, but it all started back with this subdued effort from 2011.

Tiny Mix Tapes also gave it four stars out of five and stated: "While the elders will rejoice [in] this sober, satisfied, and craftily subdued effort, the younglings of the bunch, with their abbreviated attention spans, iPod shuffles, and demand for instant gratification, will declare the album a boring and lethargic affair".

Its strength came from its internal balance, or homeostasis, its ability to rein in and subdue efforts to destabilize it".

A subdued, slightly muddled effort, it suggests an attempt to put even more distance between Ms. Bowersox and the show: look no further than the past-is-prologue message of its title track.

Even traditional fanmail has historically been hard to keep up with, and the volume of that medium is naturally subdued by the effort associated with pens, paper, stamps and postboxes.

Sharapova sounded subdued about her efforts afterwards, but the truth is that it might have been so much worse.

When he took the stage, he was met with an eight-minute standing ovation that was only subdued by the efforts of the bemused longstanding anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Trevor Huddleston.

It felt like a concerted worldwide prosecutorial effort to subdue a movement.

A massive, concerted, and coordinated effort was required to subdue the movement.