Sentence examples for subdued picture from inspiring English sources

But Thursday brought a more subdued picture.

However, the committee will have drawn scant comfort from the more subdued picture painted by the official index since it is two months out of date.

The BBA's statistics director, David Dooks said: "January's severe weather impacted adversely on what was already a subdued picture of borrowing demand from households and businesses.

(Picture book; ages 4 to 10) Using a palette almost as quiet as his wordless text, Pett's witty if subdued picture book tells the story of a little boy who receives a toy airplane as a gift.

The large, blurry, chromatically subdued pictures are cropped like the nudes of Edward Weston -- they focus mostly on torsos -- but they are not strictly formalist essays.

But while the Bank said the outlook was slightly more rosy than it was three months ago, the underlining picture remained subdued.

“Though the increased ore movements from India to China have offered subdued hope, the bigger picture remains bleak.”.

Markit said the investment and export pictures were also subdued.

But the pictures were too subdued, too Conceptual, too ironic and too, well, Dutch, for anybody in America to care.

"And that contributes, of course, to our picture of a somewhat subdued recovery, particularly in Germany, because of the lags in reaction to the economic crisis".

The wider equities picture in Europe was more subdued than Monday's positive start to 2010.