Sentence examples for way muted from inspiring English sources

It's not that the violence is in any way muted; if anything, special effects reach for Imax overstatement.

Nearby was a padded jacket with a bitmapped camouflage design ($49.90), scaled down and way more muted than the trendier bright colors available downstairs.

He also scants the potential richness and depth of Livingstone's story: the way his muted opposition to the colonialism made possible by his very exploring turns him into something of a tragic figure.

Cheered to the rafters during the pre-match introductions by locals who had loved his story, he found the applause and cheers give way to muted embarrassment as he became more and more of an enfant terrible, swearing loudly at himself and gesticulating wildly at every lost point.

Lush greens gave way to muted browns then to a charcoal-black wasteland of lava towers and steam.

She, too, was funny, but in an under-the-breath, muted way.

She will remember the hurt of the attacks in her own muted way rather than at a public assemblage.

Partly it's the clarity, the way the most muted colors become more intense against the snow.

"I didn't want to become a bad literary character, you know?" Cronin's first two novels are lovely, in a muted way.

Hoptman, who is boisterously energetic in a muted way, like a rock station tuned low, recalled her excitement at discovering straightforward painters in her generation.

Like a mother shielding her infant from brutal reality, Ausubel has found her own muted way of writing about the Holocaust.