The cashier's desk, attended by uniformed staff in tail coats, bustles with subdued efficiency.
As Charlotte, his unavailable love interest, the mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova sang with subdued intensity and dusky-toned allure.
Diabetics, often with subdued feeling in their legs, don't realize they have cuts until irreversible infections set in.
The room was like the rest of the hotel; it had sleek modern furniture in bold colors with subdued lighting.
This week, with subdued, if earnest, cheer, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the restart of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process in Washington.
Higher saving together with subdued earnings "is likely to result in relatively weak household spending growth", says the bank.There are other risks.
The piece builds to a meter-fracturing dance, then ends quizzically, with subdued, piercing harmonies for the cello and a wistful fiddle tune.
But in an ominous scene on their wedding night, to music charged with subdued eroticism, the Prince will not touch his wife until she becomes a tree.
To lend a modernist charge to the score, Mr. Shchedrin surrounds these lyrical elements with subdued rhythmic ostinatos, blankets of velvety strings, choirs of winds playing wrong-note harmonies spiked with dissonance.
Other novelties included "Yon Moon O'er the Mountains," a delightful aria from an English-language opera by the Irish-born composer Michael William Balfe, and the "Willow Song" from Rossini's neglected "Otello," which Ms. Bartoli sang with subdued melancholy.
Ms. Salerno-Sonnenberg mostly reined in her penchant for punkish excess and played with subdued intensity in the ruminative Nocturne movement, brusque rhythmic brio in the Scherzo and hyper-charged velocity in the breathless Burlesca finale.
