Sentence examples for subdued speech from inspiring English sources
Major and minor music compared to excited and subdued speech.
Last week, Trump delivered a subdued speech that celebrated his primary wins and looked ahead to a matchup with Clinton.
The convention wound up at 11pm with a relatively subdued speech from the normally combative New Jersey governor, Chris Christie.
Trump's subdued speech (by his standards) took repeated shots at Clinton, in particular by saying her "failed" economic agenda is indicative of problems in Detroit, which emerged from municipal bankruptcy just under two years ago.
For his part, Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond did not wake up on Friday morning as a prime-minister-in-waiting; instead, in a subdued speech in Edinburgh, he conceded defeat and called on all Scots to respect the results.
There were a long procession of speakers from the military and relatively low-key musical acts and unintentionally subduing speeches from Democratic politicians.
In Macron's fairly subdued victory speech the political outsider vowed to unite a divided and fractured France, saying the world was watching and "waiting for us to defend the spirit of the Enlightenment, threatened in so many places".
Webb looked subdued, giving a speech that appeared to send one man to sleep.
But he opted not to say anything more until Thursday, when he delivered a subdued seven-minute speech at the White House.
President Trump's relatively subdued Oval Office speech on border security included one combative note: a challenge to the suggestion by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that Trump's proposed wall on the border with Mexico was immoral.
