Sentence examples similar to subdued inflection from inspiring English sources

Do we subdue certain inflections, replace certain slang for words of more common currency, or do we lead a bilingual existence comfortably or uncomfortably?

"There was no inflection in his voice". His son was not ranting and raving, but withdrawn and subdued, he said.

The madrigals show his new manner most clearly: an elegant and pliable vocal line, scrupulously following the inflections of the words and heightened by affective embellishments, stands out against a subdued chordal accompaniment in diatonic harmony improvised from the newly invented basso continuo.

subdued vox.

So subdued.

Sarcastic, conversational, honest, subdued.

Colman was subdued.

She became more subdued.

Today we are subdued.

The third quarter was subdued.

"But it was subdued.