Everything is very muted.
The applause for Nuttall is very muted.
The audio is very muted, and his band sounds quite flat.
"Definitely in the verbiage they've been citing the corporate spending environment as being very muted," said Chris Shilakes, a Merrill Lynch analyst.
In fact Gray belongs to the cosy club of commentators and pundits whose criticism of other current players and the game's rulers is very muted indeed.
"The inventory overhang means any recovery in building will be very muted for an extended period," Ian Shepherdson, chief United States economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote in a note.
Beyond that, the Israeli reaction is very muted, and there are those who argue on the basis of watching Erdogan in action, that this is the right reaction, if the idea is to calm the high tempers in Ankara.
There's kind of that spirit in Portland, but it's very dull and muted," he said during my recent visit to the new Los Angeles location.
Lately he's been wearing Calvin Klein suits, he said, "because I like things to be very simple – muted colors, not too many colors – so I guess dull and conservative.
"The visuals that most people carry around about slavery are very benign, very muted: enslaved people are depicted as happy and well fed and well treated".
