| 单词 | muted |
| 例句 | A party of tourists shuffled past the confessional while their guide described the mosaics above their heads in a muted voice. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z With his tongue against the roof of his mouth, he made the repetitive muted clacking sound of the shuttle, and then the whisper of the threads turning into cloth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Giuseppe,” the mother said again, in a soft, broken chord of muted anguish. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Alex’s mom sat on the sofa, the light from the muted TV flickering on her face. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The tree muted and softened these sounds, and Hatsue felt herself at the heart of things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In the daylight, the Rezaeis’ house was older and smaller than Mamou’s, the khaki muted enough that I could look at it without sustaining damage to my visual cortex. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Briony was impressed by the muted response—such was the three men's worldliness. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the far edge of the bog a bomb fell, its muted blast followed by a distant rain of excavated glop. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The books are by Dutch painters, who painted in a muted palette, so although he absorbs some of what Theo is trying to tell him, Vincent's color range remains more Dutch than French. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His voice and his loudspeaker jingle bells are muted by the dusty glass; he rocks back and forth behind his mechanical reindeer, looking soggy, blowing kisses to the crowd. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, different species of monkeys were muted together. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His words are muted like he’s speaking into a water bottle. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The driver talked in a muted, consoling tone as he drove. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z We were both dressed in dark suits, white shirts, and muted ties. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Thomas took it all in with a distant and muted wonder—he was far past being surprised or overcome by anything ever again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Genie was about to ask when there was a muted thump on the door. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Because of the tall crape myrtles and elms standing outside the windows, the light that filtered into the Hall of the Gods always looked a little muted. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the night he was wakened by the muted patter of rain on the mattress over the door above them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z An occasional peal of drunken laughter drowned out the hoarse yells of tired children and the stoop chatter and the muted noise of a dozen transistors on different stations. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sudden absence of our shouts it’s easy to hear their growls, muted to the point that they’re less a moan and more a whisper of sound. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He’s both surprised and pleased to see us, but his response is muted. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The world is muted except for this loud buzzing in my ears. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z And the silhouette on my porch was muted, as if the body below was wrapped in gauze or I was seeing it from a hundred feet up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The volume is muted, and I’m staring at the flickering images. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There was only the muted sound of falling things, and flesh on unsurprised flesh. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The nearby club members conspired in muted whispers. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Soon, she heard the muted chatter of the night-soil men as they collected the sewage; she fell asleep listening to the scraping sounds of their shovels as they worked, shielded by the dark. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I’m sitting next to Jessie, my fluffy cousin, and her little brother, Frankie, who isn’t paying attention to what’s going on at the table because he’s watching the muted football game on TV. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He recognized that the common practice of competing with specially outfitted racing cars muted the promotional effects of victories, given that the consumer knew he was not buying the race car. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She could hear the voices of the meeting ahead, behind a closed door: men’s voices in muted arguing. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are plush chairs like the kind you find at a movie theater, and a muted soundtrack playing some New Agey—type music. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Always there is the muted rattling of her father’s tools inside his rucksack and the distant and incessant honking of automobile horns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So I stopped thinking about the layers and the warmth, muted the TV, and focused on Decapitation. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z At first it was just a shadow in the mist, but as she approached, she made out the muted shape of a grassy hill, a stone foundation, and white walls. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The bottle shattered harmlessly far away with a brief and muted noise. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She looked at the television screen, a sitcom that she’d muted with the remote control when the phone rang. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The cafeteria clamored with the sounds of plastic trays against wooden tables and forks scraping plates, but any conversations were muted. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z When I read the last sentence, he made a muted clapping sound with his hands. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then I hear them—the muted thump of footsteps in the dirt coming around the corner. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But there was no denying that he cut quite a figure in the muted colors of his fine silks and suedes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The muted thunder of the plumbing—she had not noticed it begin—ceased with a judder that shook the air. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The everyday noises of the lunchroom are somehow muted, and everything around me becomes motionless. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Her strokes are broad and gentle, the colors muted; Lelia says anatomically correct pictures give the kids nightmares. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The weeping was copious, but it was dignified and muted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He muted the TV and grabbed for his gun. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole scene quivered vague and mysterious in the green light, then the door closed and the sound muted down. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance they could hear the muted sound of traffic going round Hyde Park Corner. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The party felt muted, unfocused, scattered all over the house. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She squinted, and for a few seconds all she saw was the muted star shine of the night lanterns. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Her wild hair is drawn into a tight ponytail, and her makeup is muted and faint. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Voices were calm and muted at first, then became somewhat louder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Everyone must have seen them, or heard their muted laughter, or smelled the heavy pomade on their hair—or perhaps failed to see them at all. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Every living creature up and down the fields and copses must be muted, pressed down as though under a great, soft paw. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They tore off the last of the clinging leaves, and left the trees looking ghostly against the muted brown of the hills. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The screaming of the engine grew muted, replaced by anxious voices shouting to them. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But for us, who lived by the green, quiet fields, perilously close though these were to the town, nature still gave its muted message. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They said, voices muted, awed, that she talked with God every day, just like Moses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard smelled the saltiness of the air as Kainene led him through wide rooms with tastefully mismatched furniture, wood carvings, muted paintings of landscapes, rounded sculptures. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For a second, the only sounds in the room were the muted shouting coming from the rescue workers outside, the chopping sound of a helicopter, and the siding-company commercial playing on the radio station. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The cloth muted the noise of the wooden stick on the tiled floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But then Axe muted the volume as he replayed my stump speech, removing my voice so that we could look more closely at my body language, specifically my facial expressions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There were a few camera phones out, one of them pointed directly at Officer Hull, who watched the scene with a muted horror on his face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She pictured her sister, Annie, standing at the kitchen window, the baby on her hip, the longing stealing over her face like a ghost hand, the muted cries later in the shower. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She was smoking and drinking and watching Bunker with the volume muted so she could read. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Blanca managed to bring him a guitar and stuffed some rags beneath the strings so no one would hear him composing muted songs of widows, orphans, prisoners, and the disappeared. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She heard a few muted laughs and turned back around to see Hussein still skipping and flapping his arms. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Even my green eyes, which I thought were my best feature, seemed dull and muted. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Matt’s bare feet moved silently beside him, and the only other sounds were Kira’s walking stick, which made a muted thump with each step, and the dragging of her twisted leg. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The demigods all joined the toast, but their enthusiasm seemed muted. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The muted clanking sound that had puzzled her during the celebration! Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama’s voice comes like I’m hearing it from underwater, far away and muted. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Nothing for a while but the muted tock of the pestle in the mortar and Mouse’s purring. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z My pulse beats with my footsteps on the ramp, and as I get closer to Jason’s front door, I hear a thumping bass line and muted laughter. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The heavy weight of four muted funerals weighed on her head, funerals based not on physical bodies but on her words. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His voice sounded muted and distant, like he was speaking with a pillow against his face, but she still heard him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He was making fun of his wife, but Obinze knew, from the muted awe in his tone, that it was mockery colored by respect, mockery of what he believed, despite himself, to be inherently superior. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Kainene’s house was repainted a muted green; the bougainvillea that had wreathed it was cut down. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Beyond their own voices they could hear, drifting down the drafty halls, a frenetic, muted tapping—the sleepless Number Two on her computer keyboard—and from somewhere above them the occasional creak of a floorboard. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It's still muted, but probably not for much longer. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I muted my audio so Aech wouldn’t hear, then took several deep breaths until I got myself under control again. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Porter flicked channels on the muted TV. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The engagement ring on her left hand glints in the muted London morning. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Either way, thoughts of Faith and Fang and Astelle and how I’d just been slain outside by a single note seemed distant, muted by the church’s shadowy stillness and the Pastor’s lingering calm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Slose was a frail, youngish person, with unusually light, bright eyes and a muted, intense voice; he looked like an idealist, a dedicated soul. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The next day, Shumach wrote humorously of the assembled onlookers at the match: “Chess spectators are like Dodger fans with laryngitis—men with rampant emotions but muted voices.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But now the silvery mist muted all the colors of the grave markers, the uneven ground dancing with strange shadows. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The muted laughter and piano playing from the bar could still be heard through the wood-paneled walls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The golden pommel was smooth and rounded, its color deliberately muted; ash leaves of pale gold entwined at the hilt, and a pattern of leaves covered the scabbard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Ernest’s determination to keep on Groves’s good side showed in his muted response to an incident that outraged the physics community and inflamed public opinion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The roar of the Berg was coming from their right, muted by the dwellings and rows of trees in between. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z To receive phone calls, she wore her most serious pair of trousers, her most muted shade of lipstick, and she spoke sitting upright at her desk, legs crossed, her voice measured and sure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I nod, tight-throated, staring now at a muted commercial for laundry detergent. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z It lands with a distant, muted splash in the pond. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The longer an isotope’s half-life, the more muted its radioactivity, and, therefore, the more difficult it was to detect. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sitting cross- legged on his bed, Sohrab kept one eye on the muted television, the other on the harried lawyer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Dad is probably ignoring whatever muted movie is on Channel 17 while skimming the day’s paper. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Moments later there was a distant glint of sunlight on metal, followed by a muted thwack. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the sound of the wagon seemed muted, as if far off in the distance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Shay winked, pushed a button, and said, “Hey, it’s me, Shay. No, I’m sorry, Dr. Cable’s busy. Doing what? Well, it’s complicated . She muted the device. “Shouldn’t you be rescuing people or something, Tally? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Her dad picked up the remote control and muted the TV. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z His muted instruments flashed nothing but sun, until a gaggle of noisy kids showed up and he got back to minding his own business. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Behind the house, seeming almost overhead, the great hills were muted and dull in the rain. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Some scythe robes were bright, some more muted. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Sighs of relief and muted conversation replaced tense silence as the image began coming through. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt a great commotion in the air around her—a great excitement, muted, waiting on the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The door slammed shut, and the voices were muted. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to imagine feeling any color but muted gray. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The air around him had a greenish, muted hue, as if only several minutes of twilight remained in the day. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The only thing that helps is watching late-night TV with the sound muted. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z There was moonlight, and there were streetlights, but the fog stifled everything, muted light and muffled sound and made the night shadowy and treacherous. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The beauty was overwhelming, even muted in the late fall, and Anya had to look down. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He felt a sliver of muted fear, similar to what he’d experienced that morning when he stepped toward the window to see the Griever. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He disappeared and I heard some muted, angry cursing. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The light here was broken and muted, and the shadows were thick, tangled, confusing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Angela’s name pulsed beneath the hushed conversations like a muted drum. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice was quiet as usual — velvet, muted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Dusk approached with lightning speed, casting a muted purple hue over the backyard. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z With a muted thud, the receiver bounced on the carpet, dangling from its springy cord. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Spots of muted autumn color disrupting the black and white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She could still hear the music and laughter from the Square, but it was more muted here, and she found herself nodding off. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This foreboding, this muted dread, was what she had sensed around her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The third floor was so high up that street noises were muted into a comforting sound. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Jamie’s voice was muted since his forearms were protecting his mouth. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the organ began to hum, the chatter muted and everyone took a seat. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z A green fireball shoots out of his Roman candle with a muted thunk. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The crash and roar of the water has been muted to a mumble at this distance, the waves are so far below. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The noise of living things was not so much muted as halted—even the seagulls were silenced. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was as if someone had muted the world. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z But once you passed through the Colonial doorways, with only an occasional fan window or low relief pillar to suggest that a certain muted adornment was permissible, you entered an extravaganza of Pompadour splendor. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the video of my speech finished playing, I quickly muted the live YouTube video and switched to another window where the Zoom call was already loaded. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Yet there was only the muted hiss of the gas jets, safely enclosed within their milk glass cradles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I would wake up in a new body and wouldn’t comprehend why things felt muted, dimmer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z But now she heard it too: a dull, intermittent metallic noise, a muted clank. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The sounds are muted, as if I'm hearing them through water. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Flora's mother stepped out of the shadows and into the muted light of the kitchen. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z I didn't want to distract the people who were saving my life, so I muted my mic and screamed like a little girl. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He paints passionately, with huge, violent sweeps, squinting at the soft, muted colors in the sky. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z All sounds were muted, as if I had a wad of thick cotton in both ears or was shut up in a padded closet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The muted light of yet another cloudy day eventually woke me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I heard a baby cry, its mother’s muted soothing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z At night especially, the cityscape was muted enough to lose its sense of scale. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My dad muted the television and sat up. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Truman’s accomplishments are muted, its strengths not in great demand. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The grate is locked by a steel padlock, its shine a mocking contrast to the muted green coat that covers the rest of the ship. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z To accommodate the muted light, Fadi needed to hold the camera as steady as possible and use a longer shutter speed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He was about to reply, but I muted him first, so I didn’t hear what he said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Floating on my back, as I am now, staring at the blue sky while the chatter of the woods was muted by the water. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The girls were staying in a house south of Broad Street in the muted, elegant old section of the city. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face is smooth for her age, but the wrinkles on her neck are like ripples in the ocean; the tiny brown spots above the neckline of her white dress are like small, muted suns. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She had heard muted shouts when a man fell off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Around them, the sounds of the feast continued, but muted and distant, as if their little cluster of couches had slipped into a quieter dimension. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Their faces were indistinguishable in the dark and their white outfits were muted by the lack of sunlight, but I could see that they were little boys running away from something—or someone. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The waves here didn’t crash on the shore with a steady sound like muted thunder the way they did in Provincetown. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In the attic high above her, a muted ring matches it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her purse fell out of her hands and hit the floor with a muted clank as she put her arms around Pita. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Edward pushed a door open, and there was the yellow brass bed and the old semaphore banners from college and a very musty raccoon coat which he stroked with muted affection. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They stared at the muted brown home, a tall chain-link fence rising up around it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He put his forehead on the table and shook with muted laughter. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Kaede remembered how the Xi had seemed to glow the first time she had entered Taninli, but this time the whole world was muted. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The pastry covering offers muted flavor before the spiced potatoes explode in taste, tangy and hot. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z So, as usual, I muted it, then dove into my art. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her mane of rebellious curls, which had charmed me so when we were married, was muted by a few white strands that lit her sleeping face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She's been so muted and invisible, wearing white, white, and more white. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The clicks were muted by the lead; he would have to concentrate. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z There was muted singing all around her; yet she waited. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z They make a sad noise, like muted church bells. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z His mouth moved, but the TV had been muted. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Marla’s voice is back now, talking over muted footage of me being interviewed on the infield. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The other half of my head felt detached, muted. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The roar of the blast was curiously muted. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z De Wet’s voice, which was muted before, was now barely audible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their half muted crankings miles above where they circled the earth as senselessly as insects trooping the rim of a bowl. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z For all its obvious theatricality, the painting is surprisingly muted: David seems to contemplate Goliath with a mixture of sadness and pity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Ah, she was from another world, a world of beautiful dresses of muted greens and garnets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael watched Hatsue pull sheets from the line, standing in a pool of muted porch light with her arms illuminated and elegant. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Kvothe tossed two pieces of firewood into the wheelbarrow where they struck the bottom like a muted drum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She ran her hand further back and brought out a moire silk dress with a pleated bodice and scalloped hem—a safe choice since the pink was muted and musty enough for evening wear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the mirror, I saw the dark silhouettes of at least three of my sisters locked in a muted struggle. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z So he takes that as the okay to reenact the Battle of Gettysburg on his plate, complete with sound effects of gunfire and muted cries of “Charge!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The buckets make a muted, frozen clanking as they are refilled. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But he did see the glance that passed between his parents: an expression of muted alarm. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Their words are muted as the winds they allow through the netting. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa refused on our behalf and then went up to the table to talk in muted tones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The servants still went about their duties, but their voices were muted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We first muted the sound, but there’s no remote so we let it go on, silent. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z All I heard was the sound of the bell and muted forest babble—nothing to alarm me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z But it’s too late to think about that now, already their feet are on the dusty-rose carpeting of the stairs; a heavy muted tread, pulse in the forehead. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The colors of things in houses have darkness mixed into them: maroon, mushroom beige, a muted green, a dusty rose. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On the ground, the jockey was fettered and muted, moving in slow motion, the world a sensory vacuum after the tenfold high of racing speed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There was still the sound of the water—although that, too, was muted. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to ask her what she thought of the things they never discussed—their relationship, a future, Susan—but his uncertainties muted him each time; he was afraid of what her answers would be. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I hear chatter, muted sobbing, sniffling, someone moaning, someone else sighing, elevator doors opening with a bing, the operator paging someone in Urdu. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He sat there, the TV muted in the background, and he felt at home again, a strange sensation after such an intense day. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The victory celebration at camp was muted, due to grief- not just for Leo but also for the many others who had died in battle. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The phone rang then, loud and jarring, unlike the muted purr of ours back home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z We have a subdued lunch, and I wonder if Tats and I will end up muted like Sandra by the time school lets out next week. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The old man dug the remote out of his pocket and muted the volume. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Her gold chandelier earrings glinted in the muted light from the bonfire. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Suddenly the air seemed heavier, and the vegetation became thicker and denser as we passed each successive train station, painted in muted pastels. Sri Lanka, an Island Nation That Is Best Savored Slowly 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Apparently the 18th century Jacobite rebellions were a much more visually vibrant time than the 20th, because Claire leaves the muted tones of 1940s Scotland and wakes up in an Instagram filter. Outlander Recap: Feminism and Time Travel in a Bodice-Ripping Romance? Sure! 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z Nobody told you to disguise your religion growing up, but you’d only admit it with a muted kind of shame. Map the smells of your day. It will be heady with truths 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z The chemistry between them was muted but there, especially in eye contact, even across large distances. Misty Copeland’s Down-to-Earth Debuts in ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Giselle’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The ocean’s edible bounty receives expert and elegant treatment at Restaurant Gilles, a modern and minimalist room with muted colors. 36 Hours in Rennes and St.-Malo 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z He leaned into the grand piano and damped the strings, playing muted percussive melodies with right-hand alone. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z For a piece in which emotions ostensibly run high — everyone, as usual in opera, is always in love or in hate with everyone else — the emotional power is strangely muted. Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But this loss of applause in our public life, and our current lack of anything to applaud in the arts, feels worse than some awkward silence writ large; it feels like we’ve all been muted. Perspective | I miss live performances, but what I really miss is applause 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Here, the clash of cultures theme is more muted but still significant. Review | A beautiful tale of friendship, loss — and physics 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Compared with the modern digital soundscape, though, his era is positively muted. Clap On Your Bose, Baby, ’Cause It’s Noisy as Heck Out There 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z “First You Write a Sentence” is a “muted love letter” to the form, arguing in its genially opinionated way for sentences that make our lives more democratic and more pleasurable. Want to Learn How to ‘Nail the Jelly of Reality to the Wall’? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z On Tuesday night, even his neckwear was more muted: a striped blue-and-white tie, not a blazing red one, as if to signal that he was putting away his bullfighter’s cloth for one night. President Trump Changes His Tone, if Not His Tune 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The concept, originally imagined for the Milan store, incorporates wood, Alicrite cladding, and fabrics and rugs in muted tones. Missoni opens a flagship on Paris’s rue Saint-Honoré 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Atop a high hill, Murdoch kills the motor and gazes below silently at the craggy patchwork foliage of muted greens, yellows and browns. Scotland’s northeastern scenery circuit — 500 miles of sheep, history and whisky 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z On the first floor, a lounge and bar area known as the Mary Lou Room received a colorful overhaul with brightly hued seating and pin-striped wallpaper balanced by more muted antique oak herringbone floors. London’s Groucho Club Gets a Much-Needed Makeover 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z While we watch smart TVs they watch us, a muted red light on our idle books, our dying plants. Why turning on the TV in the bedroom is a big turn off | Eva Wiseman 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z “The Legend of Ten,” a 2010 work that responds to Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F Minor with handsome school-of-fish patterns and muted folk gestures, was danced by members of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Review: At Lar Lubovitch’s Golden Anniversary, No Surprises 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z But it has seen an oddly muted reception, thus far totaling $141.7 million domestically, well below the $368 million domestic haul of “Despicable Me 2.” A summer without swagger for Hollywood 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z What’s interesting about the film’s relative success is that the marketing campaign was fairly muted and mainly digitally focused. Did arthouse horror hit The Witch trick mainstream US audiences? 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z The quintet’s mythology fills only half a page of the 400-page Marvel Encyclopedia, and cries for immortalizing it on film have been muted. Guardians of the Galaxy: A Bratty Star Wars 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Though underwritten and dramatically muted, this unusual movie diverts with an extraordinarily intricate sound design that allows us to borrow Ruben’s ears. ‘Sound of Metal’ Review: When the Music Stops, the Healing Begins 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z By contrast, Ziegler’s work is more muted, perhaps a bit insipid and static, but by no means inept. Artworks labeled degenerate in Nazi Germany are N.Y. hit The Cassatt String Quartet performed the premiere of Waddy Thompson’s atmospheric “Winter Morning by a Lake,” whose muted textures effectively illustrated the title. Music Review: Eight Hours of Songs, and Uncounted Influences 2011-02-22T22:18:37Z The colors are often muted, but sometimes the artist pits pale yellow or pink against bolder hues. In the galleries: Four artists’ views of nature, at McLean Project for the Arts And with the exception of several brightly striped tunic jackets that looked as though they’d been swiped from a gondolier’s closet, the palette was muted. Milan Men’s Fashion Week Review: Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani and DSquared2 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z These works were designed for spiritual meditation, which explains the minimalist style and muted colors. Why wait in line for Florence’s Duomo when Fra Angelico’s frescoes are nearby? 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The setting of “The Archer” is the world of parables that we might think of as Meaningville, an abstract realm with muted colors and a fuzzy periphery signaling Lessons are about to be unfurled. Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Nobody else except Mr. Madoff projects so surely here, but Ms. Lentz’s more muted, remarkably fleet style lodges in the mind. Dance Review: ?Wanderer Fantasy,? a Puzzle at Danspace Project 2010-05-21T22:54:00Z The splendid artwork in “Market Day” manages to evoke — depending on the scene — wonder or sadness, though the color palette mostly stays muted. Books of The Times: New and Old Worlds Clash in James Sturm?s ?Market Day? 2010-04-25T22:23:00Z Painted with a silky, brushless touch in muted hues and subtle tones, it poetically fuses inner psychology and outer world. Art Review: ?Luminous Modernism? at Scandinavia House - Review 2011-12-01T22:55:09Z Some of the individual shots are beautifully abstract, a whirl of muted color and geometric patterns. 'Steve McQueen: Drumroll' will be at MOCA Pacific Design Center 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z "Chilled tomatoes will have an unpleasantly mealy texture and a muted flavor," Ziata wrote. Should I refrigerate my tomatoes? 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Bridgers’s lyrical talent was evident on her 2017 debut, “Stranger in the Alps,” which had a few perfect songs but as a whole sometimes felt muted, languid and downcast. Phoebe Bridgers Wants to Believe 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Not everyone thinks Fennell is up to the job: the response after Sunday’s premiere was muted, with some fans claiming that Killing Eve lacks its former magic. Killing Eve season two: is it as bad as everyone is saying? 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Post-debate commentary made much of the crowd’s rather muted excitement about Bush; more importantly, he once again failed to appear excited about his own candidacy. Fox News tries to expel Donald Trump — but last night’s debate didn’t finish him 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z He might be muted, but his message still carries across. Watch Kanye West's Too-Profane-For-TV Performance at the Billboard Music Awards 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The sombre first movement, by turns barbed and lyrical, was beautifully understated, and its tricky combination of harmonic bitterness, muted virtuosity and melodic expansion flawlessly judged. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda/Ehnes – review 2013-02-24T18:00:05Z A TV comedy feels less hospitable to someone with a genuinely odd sense of humor and a muted manner of expressing it. How Low-Key Comedies Are Owning Fall TV 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The band’s guitars are muted, its usual volcanic rage downgraded to a mild pique, its co-frontman, rapper Mike Shinoda, mostly absent. Review | Linkin Park abandons its signature sound and the result is unrecognizable 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z It’s a startling analogy that Weissmann delivers in his characteristically muted, matter-of-fact style. A Prosecutor’s Backstage Tour of the Mueller Investigation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z At the recent rehearsal in London, the atmosphere was muted. An Exiled Theater With a Warning for Europe 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z My right-hand neighbour, who is a great composer, insists that it is a muted trumpet. The Rite of Spring – a rude awakening 2013-04-12T15:01:01Z The soloist in the Beethoven concerto, Jonathan Biss, was smooth and subtle when the orchestra returned after his first-movement cadenza, but strangely muted elsewhere. Music Review: The New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-12-25T22:36:15Z The story line, controversial in the late 1980s, offers muted social commentary. Review | ABC’s ‘Dirty Dancing’ remake is just going through the motions 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z “We thought that a price up-side potential for the next several months was muted by all this extra storage,” was how Hunter put it later. Hedge fund’s wild side: The man who lost $8 billion 2013-06-01T20:30:00Z The party was muted by an undercurrent of mourning. What really happened at Chappaquiddick? A new movie explores the truth we’ll never know. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z It seems that the conversation around it this season has been a little more muted in comparison. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z The install combined works by Smith with pieces from LACMA's permanent collection — and Smith did some super cool projects with Charles White students — but certainly, the artist's visibility was muted by the remote location. Black women artists in L.A. museums: Good news at Hammer, but representation remains weak 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z "I mean, I am who I am, but I've kept a part of me muted, and it's been stifling." A racist slur, a groundbreaking coming out and country music’s future hanging in the balance 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The best-case scenario is that our mitigation efforts blunt that curve so that the peak you keep seeing me showing on television becomes muted to the extent possible. Anthony Fauci: The coronavirus pandemic ‘is not, as it were, under control’ 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Entertainment’s “In the Heights,” for instance, has had a muted run in theaters despite rave reviews from critics. Strong Opening for ‘Fast & Furious’ Film Suggests Movie Crowd Is Back 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z A giant American flag billows in the opposite direction, its colors offering stark contrast to the muted tones of the ramshackle home. Who owns patriotism, the left or the right? American artists know the answer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z But overall the show was low on spectacle, with most artists presenting stripped-back, muted performances; largely concentrating on their slower numbers. Grammy audience falls three million 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z But mostly we hear an original score by the D.J. and composer Erica Blunt that largely sounds like hotel lounge music from the early 2000s — samples of muted trumpet with beats. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z And then, Carlos’s diagnosis: I am, it turns out, a “dark summer” meant to wear cool, muted colors like baby blue and plum. What hue looks best on you? Color analysis is back to help us obsess over our personal identities. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The color palette was muted with occasional splashes of yellow. Fendi reveals structured, fitted Fall/Winter 2020 look 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Leigh actually thinks we first reached peak Anderson at least 10 years ago, when The Darjeeling Limited was released to a much more muted response. How the Wes Anderson aesthetic took over the world 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Tucked away in a corner, it’s small and tranquil, a quiet space with muted colors and basic furniture. Ron Darling’s Piece of the Sky 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The color palette ranges from orange to green to pinks, all of which can be muted by the overlay. Colors in, and black out, on Milan runway 2012-09-23T22:46:03Z The echoes are still there in Dear's two-hour version but Shelley's rage against existing social structures is muted. Frankenstein - review 2011-02-24T00:46:25Z And Keb’ Mo’, working with a more compressed energy, brought terse elegance to “Cross Road Blues” and the right sort of muted dejection to “Love in Vain Blues.” Music Review: ?Robert Johnson at 100? at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-07T19:51:48Z If the building in places seems unusually refined by the standards of Gehry's career, the sheer scale and the dramatic way the massive details of its construction are everywhere exposed keeps it from seeming muted. Paris' Louis Vuitton Foundation epitomizes Frank Gehry's genius 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Through the dark-hued 90 minutes of the work, the pace remains relentlessly slow, and the movement remains a muted accessory to the text, rarely creating a parallel world that might amplify or extend its tragedy. Critic’s Notebook: Dominique Hervieu Leads Her First Lyon Dance Biennial 2012-09-18T22:30:06Z I also bought peppery radishes in kaleidoscopic pinks and purples, and sugar snap peas, which I snacked on while muted on Zoom calls. Bored with beige pasta? Grab a head of broccoli and a blender 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Although you can’t judge a film by its trailer, the muted, unhumorous tone of this teaser hints at the film’s objective. The Mulan trailer is a dismal sign Disney is bowing to China's anti-democratic agenda | Jingan Young 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z We lay entwined on his secondhand couch one night when he muted the TV. Modern Love: A Lost Child, but Not Mine 2011-07-28T22:12:45Z Hawaii-based photographer Wayne Levin documents all aspects of sea life — animals, surfers, paddlers, divers, swimmers, shipwrecks — in black-and-white shots that put what goes on above and below the ocean in muted, painterly light. A&E highlights: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful,’ Flogging Molly, Joyce Carol Oates 2013-03-07T20:22:37Z The opening song, “A Day in the Life of Jordan Asher,” was a muted rap over wavering vocal harmonies; it spoke about holding a young man injured in a subway accident as he died. After His Coup With Beyoncé, Boots Strides Out of the Shadows 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z Hollywood’s biggest party seemed, even in its most raucous moments, a bit muted. The Golden Globes Send a Muddled Message Post-Trump 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z “Hidden” isn’t so bold that it doesn’t offer some rays of hope at the end of its season, but they’re muted, in tune with the show’s rigorously controlled mood and with the gray Welsh skies. Review: ‘Hidden,’ a Detective Story Under Gray Welsh Skies 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z The entire canyon turns a muted pink as the river reflects the surrounding sandstone. A river guide lays out the dos and don’ts of rafting etiquette 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Ukulele, muted trumpet, guitar, light percussion and piano evoke a lotus-scented Never Never Land through which Ms. McKay happily romps like a child of nature. Music Review: Nellie McKay at Feinstein?s at Loews 2010-06-04T22:58:00Z Afterward, we settled into our cozy rental house, flicking on the gas fireplace and sinking into light-filled spaces marked by muted grays, browns and sea foam green. For a Seattle writer, trips to the Olympic Peninsula made time to reconnect with outdoors, others 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The first of the Imaginary Landscapes, from 1939, employs two variable speed turntables playing recordings of fixed and sliding frequencies, alongside a muted piano and a cymbal. Cage: Imaginary Landscapes Nos 1 to 5; Credo in Us ? review 2011-07-28T20:49:01Z On a song like “You Don’t Know What Love Is,” their rapport is the definition of muted tension. New Music: Mindless Behavior and LeAnn Rimes - Review 2011-09-26T22:44:16Z The photos are large, amplifying the forms, details and muted hues of “Twisted Spoon & Metal” or “Sharp Metal Red Plastic.” Review | In the galleries: ‘Hard and Soft’ juxtaposes the delicate and the durable 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z In "Annie Hall," Willis used distinctive color schemes for the film's locations, alternating between the muted earth tones of overcast New York and the bright, golden glare of California. Gordon Willis dies: 8 of cinematographer's most memorable movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z And maybe to a lesser extent, in a muted way, they might influence you economically. Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z Wednesday's commentary, which ran in the popular nationalist tabloid the Global Times and its more muted English edition, does not say that Ai is detained. China media condemn 'unruly' Ai Weiwei 2011-04-06T08:42:05Z This universal barrage has, in turn, muted the mark’s ability to powerfully exclaim, like as a joke’s hilarity wanes when told over and over and over. Your Guide to Not Using So Many Exclamation Points 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Woven silk cloth in dazzling or muted colors are an intrinsic part of rural life in Laos, and of upper-class life, too. The Woven Art of Laos 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z That kick-started Hollywood's summer box office season in auspicious style in the United States and Canada, but quickly muted any further talk of a possible record-breaking weekend for the Robert Downey Jr. star vehicle. "Iron Man 2" sees solid Friday debut of $52.4 2010-05-08T19:34:00Z Alas, there was no music once again, so I depended on a muted rerun of “That ’70s Show” on a nearby television. Urban Athlete: Indoor Runs, as if You Were Out 2011-04-21T22:00:15Z The meeting resulted in a line of outerwear that delivered the muted fireworks of Trigere’s high-priced collection but at a gentler cost. | Pauline Trigere 2011-02-28T14:00:51Z Its social and political implications were muted for what Variety called “the importance of human commitment, loyalty and self-pride.” Jerry Herman, Composer of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and Other Broadway Hits, Dies at 88 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z River into downtown, admiring the skyline's muted outline in the foggy pre-dawn light. The runner's view of Los Angeles: Its landscape, its people, and the BBQ at mile 10 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z His impromptus were less serene than sedate and muted, their louds quieted and their quiets loudened. Music Review: The Pianist Radu Lupu at Carnegie Hall 2013-01-26T00:49:58Z She never graduates to the muted cashmeres and neutral tones of an Upper East Side blue blood. Fran Drescher in “The Nanny” Is the Fashion Look This Fall 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z How soft and appealing they looked, wearing leggings and T-shirts in muted shades of purple and green. Jessica Lang Dance, Leila Josefowicz and the NSO, waltzing together onstage An arrangement that includes dark-red roses, peonies, and anemones—displayed on the sideboard in a boat-shaped antique silver tureen from the owners’ collection—echoes muted red sails in an old-master painting hanging nearby. Bronson van Wyck Brings The Holiday Spirit To A Manhattan Apartment 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z For that period of time, his opponent's microphone will be muted. Final presidential debate will have muted microphones 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The pain-free Tuscans are different: a mutation in a single gene called SCN9A means they feel pain mutedly, if at all. TV review: Horizon: The Secret World of Pain, Outside the Court, Episodes 2011-02-01T08:00:03Z Toobin confirmed that an incident had happened, telling Vice that he "made an embarrassingly stupid mistake," believing he was off-camera and muted, neither visible nor audible to his colleagues. I can't believe we have to say this: Pulling a "New Yorker Zoom Incident" at work is a bad thing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z It depicted a muted, distant shape of a face, with a pair of bright blue circles for eyes. Ashley Bickerton, Unflinchingly Honest About His Work and Illness 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z But this is also asking for far too much, as if we were seeking elaborate discourses instead of appreciating the muted conversations. Exhibition Review: ‘Crossing Borders’ Opens at the Jewish Museum 2012-09-15T00:26:51Z Niven hopes that in the "relatively sane" culture of the UK, any controversy will be muted. New Frey novel on second coming vies with British novel on same theme 2011-03-17T16:53:13Z The muted tones and prowling camera make The Social Network a neo-noir, stalking the truth. 'The Social Network': A Pie in the Facebook 2010-09-24T18:50:00Z They offered embroidered white cotton separates and muted plaids, including a terrific-looking summer dress in pale gray plaid with a flounced hem. | Fashion Review: Women?s Wear - NY Fashion Week - Review 2011-09-11T21:55:13Z “In order to foster stillness and quiet, you’ve been automatically muted upon joining this meeting,” the worship host now announces at the virtual Brooklyn meeting each Sunday. Can You Gather With God Over Zoom? 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z “Your pockets may feel a little heavier,” she says to a muted daytime crowd, before introducing Pence. Kimberly Guilfoyle was once half of a liberal power couple. Now she’s basically a Trump. 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z In the other corner: Ms. Heard, similarly suited in classic, muted tones of gray and navy. In Court, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Dress to Suggest 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z This being Finland, of course, such disputes tend to remain fairly muted. Can the Guggenheim Charm Finland? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z There are nagging problems with the sound, too, which means Ryder and the exuberant Julie are sometimes muted in full flow. Shaun William Ryder ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:43Z Following the trend to de-clutter the catwalk, the Dutch duo replaced their normally inventive art-infused style in Saturday's Paris with simpler silhouettes and a muted palette of black and white. Westwood, Gaultier, Viktor & Rolf play on style 2013-03-03T03:01:05Z Considering its inflammatory content, response to "The Loudest Voice" has been surprisingly muted. "The Loudest Voice in the Room" ends up belonging to Naomi Watts' Gretchen Carlson 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z People are trouble, though not as much as usual in this muted, melancholic tale about being and belonging. ‘After Yang’ Review: Do Androids Dream of Sheep, Babysitting, Being? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But Emmy being what it is, one has to expect it would begin with a spirit of hope and enthusiasm and end with muted celebrations of small victories and a widespread resignation. Weak and predictable Emmy Awards fails to solve its diversity problem 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Avocado pits will lend a soft blush tone, coffee lands somewhere on the ochre-to-sand spectrum, and hibiscus tea imparts mauves and muted reds. How to Embrace Your Inner Trash Animal 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z One authentically loud, presumably for the kids whom Cox wants to lure into studying science and engineering; the other muted for more venerable demographics likely to send why-oh-why complaints to Points of View. Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z I assumed that I was in for what would probably be a thoughtful, muted story about ordinary people facing the small but consequential obstacles of everyday life. I Accidentally Walked Into “Border,” and It Kind of Changed My Life 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z When the movie abandons its go-to mode, muted efficiency, and becomes boldly emotional or visually arresting, it's never superimposing spectacle on top of a story that doesn't need it. 1. "Let Me In" 2010-12-31T17:01:00Z The dazzled reviews, along with a slew of awards, testified that age had not mellowed or muted her. Glenda Jackson, an Unnervingly Energizing Presence at Every Age 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z If the first “Twilight” soundtrack was a furious blast of neo-goth, and the “Twilight: New Moon” soundtrack took on a muted indie-rock approach, this entry is a hybrid, combining aspects from both camps. Critics? Choice: New CD?s by Christina Aguilera and Lil Jon 2010-06-06T22:04:00Z After an award-winning debut at a virtual Sundance Film Festival, the film’s awards hopes had seemed to lag somewhat after a muted streaming debut on Apple TV+ in August. ‘The Lost Daughter’ wins big at 31st Gotham Awards 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z The feathers create swirls of color, patterns of dots, undulating rows of muted hues. Review: Paul Bannick's photos at the Burke salute beauty, importance of owls and woodpeckers 2011-03-21T23:15:05Z But the gallery's lighting still feels excessively muted to me. Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:31Z Monroe’s solution is to act with subtlety, and Berk and Olsen balance this muted central character with some visual flair, such as a trembling close-up shot that mirrors Ruth’s shakiness during moments of panic. ‘Significant Other’ Review: Backpacking Is a Trip 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Over the course of the hourlong video call, MacGowan’s speech and movements were slowed, and his trademark guttural laugh was muted. Shane MacGowan Wants a Lot More of Life 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z But given the acoustics of Disney Hall, the dancers' feet overpowered delicately muted strings. Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic focus on Apollo 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z The ones from the 1970s are muted, unstretched canvases dotted with circular chads produced by hole punchers. At 77, Howardena Pindell Exorcises a Chilling Memory From Childhood 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Designer Shawna Underwood adds a sectional and uses soft, muted tones to create a relaxing space to watch TV and spend time with family. Create a calming retreat with room for family and friends to put their feet up 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z It was Tim, muted by his snorkel, grabbing for my attention. Personal Journeys: Quiet in the Caribbean 2014-01-22T17:41:04Z The figures are nondescript, Everyman types — an impression bolstered by the way they’re painted, in muted colors and with thick, expressionist strokes that blur them almost to the point of becoming apparitions. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The discussion of race in Hollywood would have been muted and marginalized, which would have been business as usual. Chris Rock’s Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Though "Leviathan" premiered in mid-2014, cinemas in Russia will start screening it only in February, with foul language muted to comply with Russian profanity laws. Oscar-nominated 'Leviathan' ruffles feathers in Russia 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Around it orbit several other kinds of collaborations, also monochromes; they consist of appropriated artifacts or artworks meticulously painted white or muted shades of brown or gray. Art In Review: Gaylen Gerber 2013-01-24T23:47:21Z His characteristic ardor and heroism were, on this occasion, muted. Many Giselles, but Only One Osipova 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z The pandemic made Ms. Lebedeva a fan of Ushatava, an independent label of sleek, geometrically tailored sleek designs in mostly muted natural colors. How Working From Home Changed Wardrobes Around the World 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z In the muted, artfully murky images of cinematographer Tom Stern, Hoover is truly a man in the shadows, a wraith, the G-man as ghost. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z For the first time in a while, those discussions are a bit more muted. Emmy's actor race a (mostly) level playing field 2010-08-04T03:51:00Z A soft but terse march in the flute and harp is a pricking chill, which deepens in a muted chord that builds from the bottom to the top of the strings, then the woodwinds. Review: In ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, the Star Is in the Pit 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Each new episode brings a flurry of tweets expressing a yearning for beach vacations and blended cocktails, something I can only attribute to the assumption that people are watching the show with their televisions muted. "The White Lotus" may inspire vacation fantasies, unless you see Belinda's point of view 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z But although it’s hard to predict the size of the crowds that will greet President-elect Donald Trump at his public events this week, it seems increasingly clear that the after-hours revelry will be markedly muted. The Trump inauguration is shaping up to be Washington’s smallest party in years 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z If you think the wine is muted, the fruit dulled, it may be corked. The fault in our glass: How imperfections can enhance some wines — and even make them memorable 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The muted color palette of mainly black-and-white set the tone for lauded Italian designer Giambattista Valli's low-key but effective collection Monday. Kardashian robbery casts gray cloud over Paris Fashion Week 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z The real moviegoers who see it by the tens of millions this weekend may have a reaction more like mine: muted, pleased and restless in turn. Review: 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Where's the Wicked Whiplash? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z That essay’s sad, or shocking, moments build to a muted, perhaps optimistic conclusion: “The America I return to is the one we are making together.” An Arab-American Poet Asks What It Means to Belong to Two Cultures, or None 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Warner hopes the film will perform like “Game Night,” which arrived to a muted $17 million in February but quietly generated nearly $70 million over its run. ‘Incredibles 2’ Sells a Record-Setting $180 Million in Tickets 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Now he uses plastic strings, muted with felt. In ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ a Title Role Shared Onstage and Off 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z A few feature more muted shades and a softer touch. Review | In the galleries: Art that thrives in natural light 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Their radicalism has been muted in hopes that they might not burn too hot too fast. Two SoundCloud Rap Outlaws Push Boundaries From the Fringes 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s not pure Park or pure Hitchcock but a muted, mildly mesmerizing blend of the two. Stoker: Gloom with a View 2013-03-01T04:30:31Z In New Hampshire, where antique farms are separated by lichen-covered stone walls, she sets a muted story of class and terrorism. Sue Miller’s ‘The Arsonist,’ reviewed by Ron Charles The venue muted her microphone, dimmed the lights and announced that the show was over. Singer Michelle Shocked makes anti-gay slur 2013-03-19T18:21:11Z For “I’m Not That Girl,” which is sung by Elphaba, the green-skinned wicked witch of the West, Mr. Brohn used muted strings, a harp and acoustic guitars to stress its melancholy mood. William Brohn, Who Made Broadway Orchestras Sing, Dies at 84 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The muted colors are echoed in the pendant lights suspended above. Artist Tina Randolph makes dining spaces unique 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Instead of the vibrant, colorful wares that people might associate with Latin America, her aesthetic is muted and earthy, with a particular eye for indigenous patterns. New food market in Northeast will serve up the flavors and culture of Latin America 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The crisp lines and muted color palette suggest a minimalist branding strategy. Is Graphic Design the C.I.A.’s Passion? 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z From this point on, the book’s lovely, muted illustrations depict a world of melancholy magic. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Instead of a lab coat, she wears a muted orange heather cardigan, vintage from the fifties, I’m guessing. Passing gas: A modern scientific history 2013-04-07T11:00:00Z But those scenes, shot in muted colors with hints of sepia, are surprisingly evocative. Movie Review: ‘Nicky’s Family,’ a True Story of Heroism 2013-07-18T22:27:43Z In her new novel, “The Silence of the Girls,” she takes on the foundational war story of the Western canon, giving voice to the muted women of Homer’s “Iliad.” Giving Voice to Homer’s Women 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Thanks to numerous technological advances, this new 50th anniversary edition of "Red Rose Speedway" offers a vast improvement over previous editions, which felt muted and constrained —particularly in its compact-disc format. Paul McCartney's Wings album "Red Rose Speedway" is all the richer at 50 with a loving remaster 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Morrison’s palette is similarly muted: faded pastels, weathered whites, sun-bleached tertiaries. A debut that eschews bells and whistles for diiscovery 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The ominous counterpoint guitars of “Little by Little,” stately piano of “Codex” and somber deliberation of “Give Up the Ghost” provide ballast; they are muted, unsurprising reminders of Radiohead’s past. Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z It was nearing 10:30 at night on Terschelling, but still not dark as my wife and I cycled through rippling sand dunes, their colors gradually muted by the fading light. Each summer, theater fans descend on an unspoiled Dutch island 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The atmosphere is deliciously muted and studious, with the rhymes "desk"/ "dusk" conjuring the unspoken word, "subfusc". Poem of the week: The Seasons by Derek Mahon 2011-03-07T11:09:38Z That he focused his portraits on wounded vets also muted any criticism he was trafficking on his celebrity as an ex-president to boost his new career as an artist. Review | George W. Bush isn’t a bad artist. But he doesn’t deserve a show at the Kennedy Center. 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Kashi's cereal boxes employ a muted color scheme and avoid overloading the package with claims or extensive product descriptions. Why more food, toiletry and beauty companies are switching to minimalist package designs 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z ABC caught it and muted the broadcast before it got on TV. God, family make appearance on Oscar red carpet 2012-02-27T11:58:07Z The palette is somber, the light is muted, but out of the darkness we see Pareja’s keen gaze. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The muted palette of the “X” paintings continues in “Melting Eyes and Stones ‘More Than the Instant I Want Its Flow,’ ” in which two pearllike orbs do seem to be dissolving. In the galleries: Few hard edges in sight 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z There were muted brown ensembles along with head-to-toe sweet pastels in mint and peach - including pastel-colored shoes and handbags, the brand's bestselling item. Mulberry, Illincic wrap up London Fashion Week 2012-09-19T01:16:05Z As she plays the instrument, it brings to mind the sound of water falling in underground caves, or distant, muted harps. Evelyn Glennie's stone xylophone 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z On the other hand, muted by freezing temperatures, Mr. Harrington was a man not expected to divulge any secrets. The Dark ‘Hinterland’ Doubles as a Travelogue 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z It is a book that exudes a certain surface calmness in its detached gaze, its formal beauty and the muted tones of the often-vast landscapes Kander captures. Nadav Kander's Yangtze photographs show a people sold down the river 2010-10-20T08:31:00Z A circling helicopter and the enthusiastic squeals of riverfront revelers interfered with pale slivers of sound played on muted instruments at dynamics sometimes marked at quintuple piano: an improbable notion of near-silence. Music Review: Flux Quartet Plays Morton Feldman at Bargemusic 2010-06-06T21:20:00Z Colors are likely to be muted across the Northeast and the Appalachian Mountains, including eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and southeastern New York. How to Time Your Leaf-Peeping Trip This Fall 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z So mixed in with cool khaki shorts, parachute jackets and a beautiful white linen suit were digitalized LV monogram florals and muted prints based on Chinese zodiac animals and tattoos. Fashion Review: Paris Men?s Shows Offer Order Amid Chaos 2010-06-25T21:37:00Z And then the fog would clear, the suicidal impulses would slip back under the surface, and the muted, agreeable Giulia would return. Modern Love: Out of the Darkness ? Modern Love 2011-11-25T23:11:53Z Jacky, a muted Walker-does-Brel piano ballad, is achingly beautiful; so is Hailstones, in which a drug addict hallucinates the voice of God. The Tiger Lillies ? review 2011-07-21T17:17:28Z Kasdan reunited his “Body Heat” stars Hurt and Turner for this muted but affecting adaptation of the novel by Anne Tyler. Stream These 8 Great Performances by William Hurt 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z The handbags, which included a new style named after Beckham’s daughter Harper, were softer and slouchier, in muted tones of dust and cream. | Victoria Beckham 2012-02-13T00:48:58Z It’s not that the violence is in any way muted; if anything, special effects reach for Imax overstatement. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z Reaching for her vape, Cooper seemed more muted than either of those characters, and described herself as an anxious person these days. Finding TV Inspiration in Internet Forums and Old Friends 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Wittstock sometimes wears the same blond chignon, muted colors and elegant, tailored dresses as did Princess Grace. The quiet royal wedding in Monaco 2011-06-23T06:33:42Z Sinaisky opted for Tchaikovsky's First Symphony, with its evocation of muted passions and winter chill. BBCSO/Sinaisky ? review 2011-02-22T18:20:48Z Vigorously attacking a piece of pipe, the percussionists occasionally held it so that loud clanging muted to duller clunks. Review: Yarn/Wire Provides Two Flavors of Thrill 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Already in those brief shots I get the feeling the movie will be a bit more melancholy than the usual Marvel fare, and I like muted, dreamy cinematography. First footage from "Eternals," starring Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie and more 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Consider Maria’s most-viewed video, every element in the shot meticulously chosen: the subtly patterned wallpaper behind her, the dim lighting, her muted sweater and — especially — her words. A whisper, then tingles, then 87 million YouTube views: Meet the star of ASMR 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z After the schools reopen, Billy Wilkes, 14, of Kenosha, Wis., will be the first student sent to the principal’s office for screaming “THIS IS SO BORING” after forgetting that he wasn’t muted. Style Invitational Week 1435: Who needs Peeps when we have CICADAS? 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But when Reilly pulls out that shawl—given to him by the woman he loves—and inhales its muted perfume as if it were life’s breath itself, his quiet yearning takes shape before our eyes. The Top 10 Movie Performances of 2018 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z "For the skirt, I went with a stripe in muted colors typical of Edwardian dress." Helen Keller Barbie doll is newest in Mattel’s "inspiring women" line 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z But, each time someone in power screams into a bullhorn that #MeToo is a "witch hunt," these necessary conversations get muted. Gayle King thinks the #MeToo movement needs due process: "The man instantly gets the death penalty" 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z This muted work is mesmerizing and enigmatic: It suggests a muralist paean to working-class life on the sea but lacks the expected energy of celebration. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Orlick, who is also colorblind, said that the muted pastels meant that the painting was essentially just white for him. Making Art Accessible for All 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Somewhere inside one of these houses, he is at work on scenes of domestic intimacy, inviting us inside muted chambers with checkerboard floors, high-back chairs and light slanting through stained-glass windows. In Vermeer’s Hometown, Seeking Clues to His Interior Life 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Many of the pictures feature simple forms, obsessively repeated motifs and muted colors, especially gray. Review | In the galleries: Art that thrives in natural light 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z His recent album, “Anchor,” is dryer and more muted, but still ingenious. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Their engagement, their greeting and the muted pleasure they take in each other’s company suggests a long relationship or kinship between them. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Last month, Shanghai Disneyland witnessed a muted reopening after a 3-month closedown. Disney eyes July reopen for California theme parks 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Alfredson’s visual style is moody, muted, crepuscular, and his rhythm is contemplative. Adapting John le Carr? Novels for the Movies 2011-09-18T00:03:03Z The first-ever Peanuts special was this surprisingly muted tale of Charles Schulz’s neurotic kid hero and his pathetic little tree. 10 Greatest Christmas TV Specials From Your Childhood 2013-12-12T10:45:46Z The show includes a room on “Paris, La Seine,” with a series of paintings done in muted tones of grays and browns. A River’s Tales: The Islands of the Seine 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z But once we are in the heart of this forested dell, the sounds of the riding mowers and the tour trams and even the passenger jets are muted. An ecologist speaks for the silent giants: Old-growth trees 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z And in 2005 she completed Presentation Sisters at a convent in Cork: a muted collective portrait of the few nuns left and the domestic rituals with which they filled the days. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z Ms. Yan’s campaign, and the muted response, highlights how an apparent censorship decision in China can quietly ripple through the art-house film world. A Novelist Says a Movie Fails to Credit Her. The Film World Shrugs. 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z Peggy disappointed Marie at first with her muted response but then expressed her intense regret and worked to repair their relationship. The Lesson Here Is Listen to the Victim 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z In exhibitions of older art, where palettes are more muted, you want a color that comes from the art. | Damn White 2011-01-07T21:00:41Z The colors are muted grays and browns and every shade of green. The fight to save our off-the-grid forest home 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z There are spectral interludes and moments of muted drama. New band of the day ? No 976: Dark Dark Dark 2011-03-01T16:24:00Z Near the end a muted excerpt from the original Dowland sounds as if it comes from very far away. Music in Review: Inon Barnatan at 92nd Street Y 2012-12-09T23:09:05Z This is no shapely sitcom with memorable, freestanding episodes; the camera shakes, colors are muted, there is no soundtrack, scenes interrupt each other, time advances by skips and jumps. “Looking,” Marriage, and the New Gay Sadness 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z I wanted the tragedy of what happens to Lulu to be somewhat muted in its delivery. Te-Ping Chen on the Nihilism of the Internet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The mood, though not muted, was less jubilant than one might have imagined. Big Dance takes steps towards the London Olympics 2010-07-12T14:20:00Z On this afternoon, costumed only as herself, she had arrived in a swirl of muted earth tones — brown sandals, brown-and-blue sundress, blue straw hat, gold hoops. Patina Miller Chooses High Drama 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z And they are, on the whole, muted—confined to written communications in medical journals or position statements that are only sometimes announced at press conferences. Why Doctors Should Organize 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z Corradi renders both Bryan’s downs and eventual ups with the same muted, evenhanded style, mirroring the truth that Robinson conveys forcefully with his weary, hardening face. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z At Carnegie Hall, the ovations that tend to greet familiar opening chords were scarce and muted. Elvis Costello Treats Carnegie Hall to a Solo Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Standing with heels raised and knees bent, they shift their pelvises and — as if in some muted Charleston — turn their legs in or out. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z He was one of the reasons I chose to have a muted trumpet on Holding Back the Years. Mick Hucknall: soundtrack of my life 2012-10-27T23:19:42Z Enough is Enough is a decent, but muted, send-up of dopey celebrity viral videos. Saturday Night Live: Jim Carrey, Mike Pence and a very pesky fly 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z Sanna imbues the tale with details gleaned from true refugee stories, and her art — with abstract lines and sweeping curves, geometrical, angular figures and warm, muted colors — conveys every emotional moment. Best children’s and young adult books 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Starbucks last relaxed its dress code in 2016, allowing partners to wear dark or “subdued” colors and muted patterns, as opposed to just solid black or white. Starbucks relaxes dress code; employees say they're now allowed to wear formerly banned accessory 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z At the end, a timpani roll is muted to sound almost gonglike, with Ms. Koh’s violin a coppery tremble above it. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z True to its title, the film is shot in muted tones of green and gray. ‘The Green Prince’ Tells the Story of Mosab Hassan Yousef 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Fortunately for the audience, her essence defies being muted. Hulu's irksome "United States vs. Billie Holiday" is a stunning, soul-wrenching debut for Audra Day 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z And Mr. Laredo played with a lovely amber tone in the muted passage of that work’s Adagietto. Music Review: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Plays Arvo Pärt 2012-11-19T22:51:43Z “Surfaces” is based on a series of four paintings of the same name by Mr. Rabinovich, in which muted shades of green are blended with brighter colors and swooping black circles. Review: Roman Rabinovich Brings Melody to His Art, at Walter Reade Theater 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The parties, while lavish, are muted and bloodless. The Great Gatsby on film: the Reading group's view 2013-05-14T14:21:41Z The sex scenes in the 50 Shades of Grey book series weren’t painted in muted tones. Jamie Dornan Won't Be Completely Naked in '50 Shades' 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Hausner's film is set mostly within the walls of the grotto, and her commitment to subtlety makes for a muted depiction of the town. 'A holy Blackpool' 2010-03-30T20:00:00Z The film, whose four chapters premiere Wednesday and Thursday nights, is unrelenting in its critique, but it’s also more muted in tone than that title might suggest. Review: ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ Rewrites a Brutal History 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Spring is about gentle contradictions, not color, Phoebe Philo seemed to say: Shown through a muted palette of black, white, navy and gray. Givenchy, Hermes and Celine get elegant 2012-10-01T02:46:03Z It’s just that there was a muted quality to the outrageousness. MTV Video Music Awards Are the Anti-Oscars, and That’s a Good Thing 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z The reaction, however, seemed far more muted than when the network signed up former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to a commentator role. CNN hires a prominent conservative to help direct its political coverage 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Signature house skirt suits and wrapped-up woolen styles came in muted tones of pinks, burgundies, blues and purples. Chanel caps Paris Fashion Week with swaths of iconic tweeds 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The trumpeter Sam Jones created a riveting dialogue between a nasal, slightly neurotic muted voice and one that was warm and full-bodied. Two Juilliard Concerts, Bonded by Weather 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Kaiser’s personal zeal for the artist’s work is muted. A billionaire’s quirky quest to create a mecca for Bob Dylan fans. In Tulsa, Oklahoma. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z They generate the flat muted backgrounds against which he isolated his first portraits of family and friends standing or seated, singly or in couples, from 1958-63, like “Paul Taylor.” Alex Katz: Six Ramps of a Painter’s Progress 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z That question hangs heavy over a muted, mournful, practically plotless episode, which is mostly about characters’ coming to grips with The End. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 6: The End Is Near 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z There are other echoes: The slithery intertwining of soprano saxophone and muted trumpet on “A Spring Fantasy” recaptures a sound that Mr. Marsalis favored back when Mr. Riley was in his band. Review: Herlin Riley Commands Attention on ‘New Direction’ 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z If there is a single definition of American brandy, it is a style built around robust flavors, in contrast to the muted elegance of Cognac. American Brandy Is Surging, Even in Whiskey Country 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z “It’s a lot more muted, a lot more modern. It’s a magical spectacle.” A French Acrobat Sweeps Her Off Her Feet. Figuratively, Too. 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Undoubtedly, there are biological reasons for a muted show: too many gray skies in October, or nights that stayed too warm. Dull fall may sharpen our tree planting skills It is Jarman’s masterpiece, infused with a muted and sorrowful anger. From Philadelphia to 120 BPM: the changing face of Aids in film 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z During “Lush Life,” the phrase “smile in spite of it” was delivered with a cutting sarcasm that interrupted a mood of glum, muted self-reflection. Nancy Harms Celebrates Duke Ellington 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z “I think as generations go on, it might get muted more because it will fade into the background,” said Gail Mitchell, executive director, R&B/Hip-Hop at Billboard Magazine. A jury convicted R. Kelly; will his music face consequences? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Sadly his cunning plan to export English cheeses to France meets with muted enthusiasm. Dancing on the Edge: episode three 2013-02-11T22:00:01Z “Though the character seems sort of shut down and muted, it never felt that way. It felt like living in a terrible, painful place.” This Time, Kenneth Lonergan Has the Last Say 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z In other words, the more stylized the action — the more it seems to take place inside Senta’s fevered imagination — the more muted its antiquated gender dynamics. The Met Opera’s ‘Dutchman’ Sails Into Port With a New Star 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z The feeling is muted because exhibitors’ cubicles are laid out in gridded blocks separated by long straight corridors. Art Review: Armory Show, Modern and Contemporary, at Piers 92 and 94 2012-03-08T23:15:02Z Throughout her opening variation her dancing looked strained, her manner muted to self-conscious hauteur. Bolshoi: Russian Seasons 2010-07-30T20:31:00Z Where the Titian show promises an intensely concentrated blast of Venetian sensuality, the second show, which I’m just as keen to see, will probably be its antithesis: cerebral, muted and dispersed. Perspective | Dawoud Bey, Jasper Johns and ‘Automania’ are among the many compelling reasons to visit museums this summer 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z "The Banshees of Inisherin" is a great mix of these two genres, with McDonagh managing to create a muted tapestry of loneliness and sorrow that still leaves you holding your sides laughing. Salon's totally (possibly) infallible Oscar predictions: Who will win? And who should win? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The thrill of having reeled in this monster was muted, however, when he unhooked the marlin and set him free. The day I went fishing and drinking with Hemingway in Havana 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z “People are accepting a more muted, covered-up feeling and moving on,” she said. Maxi Skirts Making a Comeback 2010-05-26T20:49:00Z Phil's muted strings in the lovely central Adagio, and Robert Johnson's horn playing in a warm duet with Thibaudet was especially impressive. Jean-Yves Thibaudet's lyrical piano brightens L.A. Phil concert 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z The rebooted film series, which started with a splash, had gone dormant after the muted reception to the movie “Star Trek Beyond” in 2016. Can ‘Star Trek’ Chart a Way Forward? 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z “There’s a kind of narrative, often dismissed as the ‘well-crafted, writing-class story,’ that deals in muted epiphanies and trains its gaze inward,” our reviewer, Rand Richards Cooper, writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z That muted quality was carried through to the Britten. Vertavo String Quartet – review 2013-06-11T18:09:14Z Ms. Wittstock sometimes wears the same blond chignon, muted colors, and elegant, tailored dresses as did Princess Grace. The Quiet Royal Wedding 2011-06-22T18:47:22Z But the response in France so far has been relatively muted. French filmmaker detained over alleged sexual assault: prosecutors 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Even Kanye West, in his collaboration with Adidas, offered a blur of men and women on his runway all dressed in the same muted palette of pullovers, baggy pants and slouchy tunics. Spring 2016 is all about lacy shirts, floral prints, silky fabrics — for men. Hey, why not? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Their voices, muted by history, deliver the story to surprising heights of compassion and hope. Debut Stories Trace the Aftershocks of the Sri Lankan Civil War 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z We learn about the science of attraction as well as bodybuilding for better sex; calmly and clearly, the performers recite the video’s muted speeches. Gibney Dance’s DoublePlus Series Opens 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z I have found that isolation feels muted with an animal around, even if the only things you have said that morning are: “Was that you?” and “What have you been eating?” Karl Ove Knausgaard is wrong – writers should own dogs 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Your comfort level will be enhanced by the arty, muted cinematography. Review: Netflix Is in the Woods With ‘Ozark’ 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z An opening night glitch involving the 90,000 pound set muted Wagner's triumphant ending: rather then crossing the rainbow bridge to Valhalla, the performers simply walked off the stage. Met Opera shows high-tech effects for Das Rheingold 2010-09-28T18:22:00Z Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, used to criticize Obama for rushing toward the exits in Afghanistan but more recently has muted that line of attack. Poll: Global policy a hit at home 2012-05-18T06:05:00Z Like, even before the grotesque button of the sketch was revealed, it was still doomed by the couple’s oddly muted cha cha. Cleveland Cavaliers hastily pull video that shows fan body-slamming woman for wearing other team’s gear 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z So we half hear the muted tolling of a glass bell in a glass bell jar and tune in to heavenly reverberations through a make-believe astronomical listening station. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Demand was muted and the painting sold on one bid at the low estimate: $8 million with fees, an auction high for the artist. Impressionist and Modern Works at Christie’s Stir Little Excitement 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z At the outset of this 14-minute track, which opens the Gotham Jazz Orchestra’s fine new album, “Hiding Out,” a quietly suspenseful melodic theme is passed around between flutes and muted brass and cooled-down saxophones. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Pointed Protest, and 8 More New Songs 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z What followed, however, was a muted exercise in foreboding, which in turn paved the way for a performance of The Swan of Tuonela that also seemed different. Hall?/Mandeal ? review 2010-12-10T22:00:00Z At best, the muted tunes and reggae-tinted splashes offer relaxation, but primarily, they bore. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z A yellow Goyard tote was slumped at the foot of Ms. Freymann’s chair; inside were four discreetly beaded evening clutches of her own design, in muted shades that recalled the Serengeti plains. Roberta Freymann Is All Over the Map by Design 2010-10-13T23:49:00Z “I can feel the little things adding up, the little crumbs I hate cleaning up,” the Chicago singer-songwriter Claud murmurs on this tender, muted acoustic tune from “Supermodels,” due in July. A Lost (and Found) John Coltrane Recording, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z There’s that characteristic creepy tap-tap-tap; muffled winds start to seem like forlorn church bells; a low, muted trombone sounds nocturnal, like a shadowy saxophone. Review: Skittering, Creeping Music That Had Me Seeing Things 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z They have none of the warmth of a salon, where muted walls enhance the art experience, personalize it, draw you into a gallery and bathe you in a flattering glow. | Damn White 2011-01-07T21:00:41Z The carnival atmosphere was muted by the early-morning crackdown, but demonstrators defied the authorities the following day by dancing a mass tango in gas masks. Taksim Square protests bring hope to Turkish musicians 2013-06-13T13:31:00Z This is a summery album, even if the colors are muted. Vampire Weekend album celebrates urban life 2013-05-13T21:24:13Z “The Simpsons” and “Futurama” offer constant, explosive payoffs; here the jokes are more muted, and they’re in the service of a continuing story whose major payoffs have to be delayed. Review: Matt Groening Enters the Netflix Age With ‘Disenchantment’ 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Eventually, as guitar and muted trumpet intensified with ululations and drums, he shared his thoughts about the meaning of “we” and everyone’s complicity in injustice. ‘You Are the Show’: A Hudson Valley Outpost of the Avant-Garde 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z A velvety muted note would be followed by an icicle-bright one. Music Review: Christian Zacharias Bridges the Classical and Romantic 2014-02-14T21:44:15Z He sounded especially muted and nervously fiddled with his earpiece. 'The Voice' recap: Two sent home in surprising results show 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z And though more wizened minds were investigating, the public response to this cataclysm was shockingly muted. Motherlode: Virtual Wolves at the Door 2011-02-24T17:44:01Z In its way his trumpet playing — muted staccato notes in short melodious phrases with Mexican and Brazilian inflections and steady underlying beats — is just as unassuming. Music Review: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall at the Caf? Carlyle 2012-02-29T23:34:58Z Then last year, over my muted objections, my husband brought home a puppy. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z The Nobis, in downtown Stockholm, is all clean Scandinavian lines, muted colors and modernist furnishings, generating a coziness that beckons through the windows running along the east side of Norrmalmstorg Square. The Nobis Hotel: Stockholm's Hostage to Comfort 2011-05-26T15:50:00Z In muted voices, as if speaking only to themselves, they recite strands of letters and numbers. Review: ‘Scenario’ Embeds Secrets in Its Prose and Pauses 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z That may be part of the reason “Big Little Lies” muted the pop culture impact of “Feud,” which, like HBO’s miniseries, arrived on a tidal wave of rave reviews and supposition. “Feud: Bette and Joan” fades out: Old Hollywood may have been no match for the modern woman 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The lyrics ponder spiritual matters, while the arrangement — elusive acoustic guitar and Mr. DeFrancesco providing not only vaporous keyboard but also a muted, Miles Davis-tinged trumpet — beckons toward, if not into, the mystic. The Playlist: Sharon Van Etten Comes Back Strong, and 11 More New Songs 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z He considered the muted morning light, the paint and its promise. The Working Life: The Art Endures for a Painter Who ‘Won’t Be Here for Long’ 2014-02-24T00:55:45Z That moment before we descended, everything was peaceful — the wind blew gently, the sounds of the park below were muted, and everyone looked like ants. "Dead End: Paranormal Park" explores theme parks as queer getaways 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The photographs are printed in a muted palette of silvery grays, creating a somber glow. An American artist's provocative tribute to a 1970s German radical 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Fake Ivy The clothes are reasonably priced, by J. Press standards, and they’re more muted than you would expect. Critical Shopper: Critical Shopper - J. Press York Street in Greenwich Village 2013-04-16T17:00:39Z “Now ladies, I agree that black lives matter, but black manners matter as well,” Wilmore said, a comment that was met with muted applause from the in-studio audience. Larry Wilmore mocks Black Lives Matter activists at Sanders rally: “Black manners matter as well” 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Spacious guest rooms in muted colors rely on understated elegance to impress: clean lines, bamboo hardwood floors, Spanish marble baths. 2010-02-08T17:01:00Z Inside the sleek, muted grey interior, small tables display fresh vegetables, fruit, spices, bread and wine. A Streamlined Approach to Eating at Kochhaus 2010-10-05T13:00:00Z Terror turns to mere sadness as a muted ensemble of bassoon and three contrabass clarinets — a feature of Eastman’s idiosyncratic, extravagant orchestration — offers a stunned postlude. Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Possibly more troubling for readers is that the story’s “thriller” aspects seem muted. ‘Supernotes’: The CIA asked for his help — but then threw him away 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z But there was a more muted reception for new hosts James Franco and Anne Hathaway. Oscars 2011: The King's Speech reigns triumphant 2011-02-28T04:47:00Z As the tenor saxophonist Jeremy Powell rose to solo, muted trumpets filled in below. ‘They’re Doing It Out of Love’: The Big Band Rises Again 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z What the script offers instead is a muted chemistry founded on shared experience. After ‘Mission: Impossible,’ Rebecca Ferguson’s Impossible Calm Amid a Whirlwind Mission 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The greetings were short and muted: “How are you?” Modern Love: A Photo on the Floor: My Father?s Double Life 2010-04-02T17:49:00Z She looks very good in the muted colors and good riddance to the chunky jewelry. How Hillary Clinton Ended the Clothing Conversation 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z He’s not playing for sympathy; this is a muted cry of abandon and despair. Alan Arkin Could Do It All. In ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ He Did. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Joyce also furnishes written descriptions of the music for deaf or partially deaf people, detailing the “muted and covered sound” of “Strength” and the high organ notes in “Care,” “resembling a fast medical monitor.” For composer Molly Joyce, disability is no barrier to virtuosity 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z A collection distinguished by its sure-handed hybrid of refinement and ease, its muted pastels and buttery fabrics arguing for opulence but in no way overstating the case. Front Row to Fashion 2014-02-14T12:59:49Z Because Ray is such a smoldering, muted character in the middle, all the other characters around him get to go nuts. David Hollander on ‘Ray Donovan’ Season 4 and Taking Over as Showrunner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z If a bright color is overwhelming, try a funky shape in a more muted tone, she suggests. Candles in funky and interesting shapes add visual interest and fun to your home decor 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The walls, which hide 37 secret passageways, were painted the same muted red used by the Kremlin’s counterintelligence agency. Mansion Of Secrets: An Espionage Expert's Outrageous Spy Lair 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z Stewart gently plucked the evening’s final note, and instead of letting it decay toward silence, he muted it with the flat of his hand. Review | In the heart of an ‘empire in decline,’ Blacks’ Myths try to spark another big bang 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Limited in time frame and scope — the work is based on mailings the artist sent to Higgins in the early '60s — it is a slim, decorous volume, printed in muted shades of blue and brown. A movable feast of words in Ray Johnson books 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z North American theatrical grosses stayed relatively muted, despite some major new releases like Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon” and Lionsgate’s Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley action flick “Chaos Walking,” according to studio estimates Sunday. Audiences hold back, even as more movie theaters open 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z The best song, by far, was the exquisite and delicate Djorolen, for which she was backed only by Fleck's thoughtful and delicate banjo work and by muted hand percussion. Oumou Sangaré and Bela Fleck – review 2012-07-19T17:00:01Z On the opposite wall is a TV muted on Fox News, which is covering the latest school shooting. Rep. Matt Gaetz wants you to know who he is, and his plan is working 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z When she performed live, Ms. Noël sometimes muted the lyrics in which the singer urges Johnny, naked except for blue-striped yellow socks, to hurt her. Magali Noël, a French Singer and Actress and Muse to Fellini, Dies at 83 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z It may well remain a stand-alone given both the negative early word and the uncharacteristically muted reaction of the audience I saw it with. ‘Morbius’ Review: The Other Bat, Man 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Spoonbill will mark its twentieth anniversary this fall, but Bellamy says that the celebration will be a muted one. Should We Pay to Enter Bookstores? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z There is something impenetrable about the images, with their muted colors and the ghostly, X-ray-like silhouettes of protesters. Tiananmen Square ‘Negatives’: An Art Book or a Protest? 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z She also signifies distance by using muted colors, both in her China pictures and in views of an often-snowy Paris. Review | In the galleries: Artists talk through their hats 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Chandor channeled the muted palette and subdued mood of the great crime dramas of the 1970s. The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more But her quietly elegant style and muted wit are triumphs all her own. Review | In Tessa Hadley’s new novel, death mixes everybody up 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z But the vast runway muted the superb handwork that is the pride of Chanel. Fashion Review: The Regeneration Game 2012-10-02T18:41:31Z The Hendrix exhibition, which runs to Nov. 7, is a bit of a shock next to the muted gray walls, oil paintings and harpsichords of the rooms devoted to Handel's life. Jimi Hendrix, George Handel: On the street where they lived (in London) 2010-08-25T23:00:00Z Around her, even the striking Mr. McRae and Mr. Watson seem muted, in service to the emotions that seem to course through her; passion, despair, resignation, serenity. Alastair Marriott’s ‘Connectome’ opens in London 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Grill works on her paintings horizontally, and in the muted purple “Trumpet,” she incorporated a shadow that happened to cross the canvas into the composition. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z The pianist Kathleen Supové played it with such supple poise that it appeared to gently mold itself to its sonic environment, even when that included the muted trill of an orphaned cellphone. Review: At Bargemusic, a Surprise Competition With Live Bluegrass 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z And while these comedies received some applause they’re due for ending well, celebrations surrounding their respective departures felt muted in comparison to the fury over the failings in Westeros. As "Game of Thrones" ends, we have to ask: What do we expect from a series finale? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z It was an invigorating way to wake up listening to the muted stirring of downtown LA – and I needed it after only two hours’ sleep. Thirsty work in San Diego, the craft brewing capital of America 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z But overall the work’s impact is muted and breezy, which is striking given the broad, Rachmaninoff-esque sweep of Lindberg’s musical gestures. Review: A Philharmonic Contender Returns to the Podium 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z But while Emma’s outward response seems relatively muted, she has been irrevocably shaken. | 'I Am Love': Tilda Swinton in Lush, Romantic Italian Film 2010-06-17T22:47:00Z Kruger turned 40 in July, but celebrations were rather muted. Diane Kruger: ‘I truly believe the best is yet to come’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Newton's muted trumpet line hovers in the air like marsh gas; White's minor piano chords walk the listener towards the fateful spot; then, at last, there's Holiday. Strange Fruit: the first great protest song 2011-02-16T08:00:05Z Inside Pumphouse Point, walls of Tasmanian oak and an earthy palette of muted grays, whites, and browns evoke the wilds of its surroundings. These 6 Wilderness Retreats Will Have You Dreaming of the Great Outdoors 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z With the same muted expression, Jay Z says he remembers. Watch Ryan Gosling and Jay Z Awkwardly Film Their SNL Promo 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z His touch is acute and pearly, his attack is hardly muted when warranted, and not nearly all of this music is slow or mellow. Review: A Pianist Explores Mozart the Late Bloomer 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z But Peale’s detractors, a crowd that included theologians and psychiatrists, derided his teachings as simplistic and for promoting the idea that reality’s tougher edges could be muted by repeating phrases and flicking a mental switch. How Trump got religion — and why his legendary minister’s son now rejects him 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z He inspects the window, the lamps, the doorway, desperately looking for any way to get light and air into our muted hotel room. Rupert Sanders is living the fairy tale 2012-06-01T23:02:00Z My favorite is an untitled grid of layered rectangles in muted grays and blacks painted in 1963. | Follow the Grid 2010-11-23T14:38:00Z This view of one muted anniversary response is another version of the hoary "separating the art from the artist" debate, which is simpler to do for some works. Reality bites: How reckonings and the post-truth age ruined pop culture anniversary nostalgia 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z “I still managed to play somewhat muted jazz in my apartment,” he writes, “and was in demand by bandleaders to write more arrangements.” The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z It started, by all accounts, with Proenza Schouler’s spring 2012 ready-to-wear collection shown last fall, which shrewdly reworked as stylish and urban the muted earth colors and stylized geometries characteristic of much Southwestern design. Reporter?s Notebook: An Uneasy Exchange Between Fashion and Navajo Culture 2012-03-14T19:47:42Z The colors are muted and the style is naturalistic; swimming ponds and poultry and heat-languid vegetables enable the children’s games, and the cinematographer, Santiago Racaj, crouches down to toddler height to watch. Review: A Young Orphan Finds a New Home in ‘Summer 1993’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z A wave of applause cut the singer off and muted his counterpart’s response. Don Henley and Billy Joel, at 92nd Street Y, Trade Stories About a Lifetime of Songwriting 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z About 80 percent of taste depends on our sense of smell, Smith said, which is why covid-19 patients experiencing muted smell also struggle with taste. People are losing their taste and smell to covid-19. Now there’s a cookbook to help. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z And so they hint at the details of this women-only confab from a respectful distance, lending it a muted, mysterious beauty. Review: Tina Fey Falls in Love With a War Zone in 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z It’s what irked me about “Rent,” which inserted all that drab dialogue on screen and muted the show’s exuberance. Into the woods of musicals’ sounds: Two critics on what sings on stage and screen 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z We hear a new urban soundtrack where traffic is muted and sirens scream through the stillness. ‘I would pay $50 for a 2-minute hug’: True stories of sex starvation during self-quarantine 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Everything is shot in muted hues of gray, brown and green. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 7: Crossing the Border 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z First, she painted it with Modern Love, a “warm, muted pink” by Backdrop. Tiny cloffices — workspaces in closets — are big, thanks to the pandemic 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z The wide images in “Wicked Maine,” at Watergate Gallery, are traditional coastal landscapes in muted, misty whites and grays, sometimes punctuated by a red hull, shed or jacket. In the galleries: The Old Masters, with a photographic twist, at Cross MacKenzie The strange thing about both announcements is how muted the response has been. The Real End of David Chang’s Momofuku Ko Happened Years Ago 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z ABC quickly muted the live feed, leaving an audio-free passage during which viewers tried to read Smith's lips as he angrily yelled at Rock. Will Smith slapping Chris Rock made the 94th Academy Awards one to remember — for the wrong reasons 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z The maternal influence is muted, but Mendes is scrubbily committed to, and convincing in, the part. Eva Mendes: 'I don't care about looking beautiful' 2013-04-04T18:30:01Z Some are sociopaths or psychopaths and others are just muted. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Its flesh is a barely muted incarnadine, sliced in larger hunks than typically found elsewhere, and beautifully tender. Home to Hawaii in Search of Poke 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z “OGE’s role is to help the public understand the government ethics program,” he wrote, slipping naturally into the muted key of Shaub. How the U.S. ethics chief took on Trump and became a reluctant Washington hero 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z It was a curiously muted performance, the mime gestures not entirely compensating for the limited vocal inflections. Hebrides Ensemble | Classical review 2010-03-16T22:15:00Z Artists who favored muted colors, or grid-like forms, or allover fields of pattern and color, didn’t seem sufficiently engaged with what was happening on the streets. Review | African American artists embraced modernism. But the art world didn’t embrace them. 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z While the outnumbered Charlestonians tended to favor muted office attire over the kaleidoscopic cruisewear of some tourists, what truly set them apart as they entered the overhauled, 204-year-old structure was their amazed expressions. Heads Up: Great Hall at the Charleston City Market: Heads Up 2011-09-02T18:20:06Z The BET Awards became the Bleep Awards on Sunday, as entire segments of performances were muted out due to foul language. Beyonce, Brown, Kanye, Jay-Z win at BET Awards 2012-07-02T02:50:11Z This posturing vehemence, though, can be muted by discordantly obvious symbolism. Review: The Virgin Mary Takes a Surreal Detour in ‘MA’ 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z At the beginning of each call, everyone is muted, and there is usually a presentation by a working group about some issue facing nonprofits. The Daily Call That 200 Arts Groups Hope Will Help Them Survive 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z A few episodes later, he noted, the immolation of a little girl drew a comparatively muted response. Ramsay Bolton of ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the Most Hated Man on TV 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Can two Oscar favorites overcome muted streaming launches in a year when theatrical contenders reign supreme? Inside the Oscars’ Best-Actress Battle Royal 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Now the sound of sloshing and splashing muted the thwack of the handball game on the other side of the fence. The Swimmer: Manhattan Edition 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z More bad things happen; the father preys on the growing daughter, Angelica; the tone is precise melancholy, muted outrage. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The news is met with muted excitement and a thumbs-up from one of his kids. Jon Stewart shreds newly minted candidate Bobby Jindal: You may be in trouble “when you cannot carry a majority of your immediate family” 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Downstairs, Mr. Rivera’s mother, Elisa, sells her women’s creations exuding a more subdued but still contemporary aesthetic: Her last collection included a black quilted leather jacket and form-fitting button-down shirts in muted tones. Where Cervantes Once Lived in Madrid, Eclectic Boutiques Abound 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z All the national elements within Judaism, meanwhile, were then muted. Illuminating Islam’s Peaceful Origins 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z Blindfolded, she walked me back to a candlelit pool, and had 200 of our closest family and friends muted, waiting on Zoom just out of my sight. Quarantined and Engaged: They Said ‘Yes!’ 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Her voice is small, light, relaxed at the core and springy, sounding like a muted trumpet when it goes up high, with no fogging or dragging. Music Review: Jazz Improvisation, Casual but Tight 2010-12-23T21:55:52Z Catherine Day’s deathbed photographs are in full color yet muted, their ethereality heightened by printing the images on layered silk squares that shimmer and defocus in the breeze. In the galleries: In ‘Everyware,’ new-technology photo pieces exhibit nostalgia They include two carefully observed ink drawings and two small paintings in muted colors that blend realism, Cubism and Surrealism with a deft touch. Elaine de Kooning and Andreas Gursky in Close-Up in the Hamptons 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z “Results were more mixed in 2022,” the report says, adding, “Variations in performance by sector, region, and price segments” produced “more muted growth.” Art Market Has Climbed Above Prepandemic Level, Major Study Says 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Her life is measured and calculated, and she offers the world a muted disposition and a deep desire to be unnoticed. In ‘My Name Is Iris,’ a Mother Learns the Limits of Protectiveness 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Lagerfeld’s ode to spring took the form of a greenhouse within the Grand Palais, filled with a jungle of origami-esque paper vegetation in shades of muted greens, with pops of color throughout. Chanel’s Spring 2015 Couture Show Is A Garden Wonderland 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z This was a much more muted hour of television than Newsnight. 'Prince Andrew can't slink away from this now' – the TV triumph of Virginia Giuffre 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Yet the reception doled out to series two has still been muted. Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy gets funnier the more it apologises for its own rubbishness 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z He mostly uses severely muted colors and applies paint in a variety of ways: thick, thin and brushy, sometimes scratching in with the wrong end of the brush. Art in Review: LUCAS ARRUDA: ?Deserto-Modelo? 2011-06-23T21:17:53Z Anger followed, shame, despair – all muted by stoicism. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Perhaps more surprising is another large-scale image in muted browns and reds of a market in Ethiopia, in which the people seem to have been arranged by a portrait painter from a previous age. Les Rencontres d'Arles 2013 – review 2013-07-06T23:07:32Z The living room’s western exposure, toward the Pacific, is muted with Japanese matchstick bamboo blinds; a custom-designed folding shoji diffuses the light between kitchen and dining room. Bay Area Embrace 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z During the segments of gay male sex, the ratings of heterosexual women were even more muted. Daniel Bergner: 'Women's desire is an underestimated and constrained force' 2013-07-05T21:34:00Z “You’re not going to get a really intense green with natural food color. It will be more muted,” Reid says. Artificial food coloring vs. natural options In many parts of Europe and Africa the reaction to the #MeToo movement has been muted. Cultural World Reassesses Ties to David Adjaye After Misconduct Allegations 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Tall cathedral windows let in muted light; a stone table and wooden chairs stand like art objects framed by smooth concrete and glass walls. In ‘The Girl Before,’ Minimalism Offers a Dangerous Sanctuary 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z But Halbrooks’s style is bolder than that of Morandi, who is known for small pictures of vases and bottles in muted hues. Review | In the galleries: Julia Mae Bancroft stitches the past to the present 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z The two teams will meet at Super Bowl LI, and the high-profile matchup should ensure that the weekend box office closes on a muted note. Box Office: 'Split' Tops 'Rings,' as 'Space Between Us' Bombs 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z Apart from one burst of vermillion, the muted palette of black, navy, white and pale pink was further proof of his evolution. Simons in confident Christian Dior style evolution 2013-03-02T00:08:15Z Jade, wine, teal and other muted hues produce a lovely, quiet symphony of color. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z An admirer of classic Hollywood films, he made his own in a muted visual voice with sardonic, subversive undertones. Claude Chabrol, French New Wave Director, Dies at 80 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z The paintings in Rogers’s “Field Guild: The Preface” employ mulberry-based pigments that yield muted, natural colors. Galleries: ‘Is It Propaganda? Or Is It Political Art?’ It’s set in the late 1970s and uses an enjoyably garish soundtrack and a muted palette that is practically devoid of colors to help capture a grindhouse feel. Review: In ‘Carnage Park,’ the Hills Have Eyes, and a Sniper, Too 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z These are 11 paintings with muted but expressive colors, in the manner of Edvard Munch, who was a big influence on Childish. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Once the surface has hardened, she applies a translucent wash of ink — lately, in muted shades of gray, black-blue and very deep purple. In the Studio With an Artist Devoted to the Line 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Along other stretches, beach rocks and shells in aggregate would be ground smooth to reveal the muted blues, greens and grays of an overcast day. The push to see Seattle waterfront transformed 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Just the muted click of cameras announced their arrival the other night at the Conservatory Ball, the annual spring fund-raising party of the New York Botanical Garden. What Price Generosity? 2013-06-21T22:36:02Z They also came in chocolate on a sweater worn over a muted orange diamond print shirt dress with matching trousers, and in white tops. Whitney Port inspired by crown jewels for spring 2012-09-13T02:06:08Z It's the excitement of having a boy or a girl — but it's just a little bit muted and a little bit dark and a little bit sinister. "Our Father" filmmaker's ode to "Handmaid's Tale" as an IVF "horror story" of consent 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Yet his enthusiasm for the return to normality was anything but muted. Post-Lockdown Paris? Think Youth and Sex. 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z In “Disobedience,” the emotions are reserved, the palette muted, the rooms claustrophobic, the storytelling restrained. Review: The Flesh Is Willing in ‘Disobedience’ 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z When the vengeful husband enters his wife’s bedroom to kill her in the final act of Verdi’s “Otello,” he is accompanied by the muted snarl of a sepulchral E natural in the double basses. Giving a Semi-Hearty Cheer for Semi-Staged Opera 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “Finding solace of the self requires a muted response these days. Imagine what younger people are up against, in terms of finding their way,” he added. The Decline of Yelling 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The New York artist juxtaposes blocks of bright and muted hues, straight-edged on as many as three sides but fluid where they sweep off the canvas. In the galleries: Summer colors brighten Neptune Fine Art A loyal clientele frequents this tiny boutique for jewelry in muted colors and Nordic home accessories like mugs, blankets and plates. Five Places to Shop in Copenhagen 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z The muted colors — primarily gray and black, supplemented by peach, brown and tan skin tones — emphasize the austerity. Review | In the galleries: At three venues, modernist art that looks to the past 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z “The color is actually a muted blue-gray,” she said. Everything you need to know to assemble and care for a succulent garden 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The low-slung welcome center, which opens on July 1, is clad in muted Minnesota granite that comes alive with vibrant purple-and-black striations when wet. A Fresh Start for a Walk in the Park 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Annie and Jay clearly love each other, and the notes of strife and alienation that pop up between them in the course of their hectic night are too small and muted to cause any worry. ‘Sex Tape’ Stars Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z On “Cornbread Crumbled in Gravy” especially, she brings a muted assurance, calming and bittersweet. New Music: Nathaniel Rateliff and Regina Carter Release Albums 2014-03-31T22:07:29Z At one point Ms. Gonson observed that in “Realism,” Mr. Merritt had finally made an album to match his muted wardrobe. Music Review | Magnetic Fields: A Folksy Palette of Despondency at Town Hall 2010-03-11T23:10:00Z Two men, warmly dressed, one of them charging forward, the other less rushed, make their way in rich, muted colors through a soft, radiant drizzle. Celebrating William Cumming and Jacob Lawrence at Woodside/Braseth Gallery 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z This propulsive launch suggests that, after a muted $134 million for the total run of the third Mission: Impossible film six years ago, Cruise could be rebounding from a long slump with this swashbuckling blockbuster. Sherlock Holmes and The Chipmunks: When Sequels Are Weak-quels 2011-12-18T20:48:44Z So, while this is a period piece, I still want it to be visually attractive and thought saturating it with color was more likely to get the attention of younger people than a muted palette. Regina King: Speaking Truth to Power Through Her Art 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z It was a live performance of a legendary musical that felt muted and a little sad. Television Review: Carrie Underwood Stars in NBC’s Live ‘Sound of Music’ 2013-12-06T17:45:01Z And yet Shannon’s reaction to this news struck him as muted. Date Lab: She felt like she was at a work dinner 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z In patchwork patterns and suavely muted colors, they depict fighter planes, battleships, anti-aircraft artillery, aerial landscapes, maps and cute child soldiers. Museum & Gallery Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z An Andean village festival known as the Diablada, or dance of the devils, was muted Wednesday because of the health emergency. Devils dance, observe virus protocols at Ecuador festival 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z Last weekend, Disney’s “Cruella” may have also made a somewhat muted arrival in theaters because it opened at the same time on Disney+, for $30. ‘In the Heights’ makes muted debut, edged by ‘A Quiet Place’ 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z “Interruptions,” the fourth movement, features dramatic woodwind and brass flourishes, with a chorale linking it to the viola solo and muted trumpets of “Song.” Music Review | New York Philharmonic: The Toe-Tapping Starts at the Podium 2010-02-19T23:15:00Z “I thought I was muted, sorry,” says Fowler, brandishing a highball. Mark Morris, one of the world’s leading choreographers, takes dance to Zoom 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z The emotions he felt - anger and rage, loneliness and fear - were muted in life but memorably expressed in the violent confrontations that mark his best-known work. 'Conversations with Scorsese' well worth a listen 2011-03-09T12:39:10Z This comparatively muted revival of the 1944 classic opened Tuesday at the Duke of York’s Theater in the British capital and runs through Aug. 27. Review: Amy Adams in a Too-Fragile ‘Glass Menagerie’ 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Their latest album, 2009's "No Line on the Horizon," was met with a relatively muted reception. A U2 documentary that's not pretentious 2011-09-16T23:30:00Z In the science show, the charge is muted and persistent, but the case is made only by distorting history and facts. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z Inside, a muted palette of earth tones, timber, wine-colored fabric and dark mirrors means that there are no visual elements competing with the view. High Times: Chill Out at the Summit of Ho Chi Minh City 2011-12-14T06:05:00Z The trio played a short, vivacious set of Ellington tunes — without orchestra but with the vocalist Catherine Russell, who had been already heard with the American Symphony in a somewhat muted take on “Satin Doll.” Review: An Orchestra Manages to Capture That Ellington Swing 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z For four days and nights the cast and crew veered between controlled chaos and muted anxiety attacks. A Theater Is Conjured, Then Leaves Only Memory 2011-06-06T23:01:50Z This is the first show I've seen in a while without even one audience member standing at the end and with muted applause. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Even after Beautiful Boy’s high-profile premiere at last year’s Toronto film festival, when initial reviews were decidedly muted, Chalamet was still seen as a shoo-in. And the nominees aren't: the Oscarbait films that failed in 2019 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Prabal Gurung included a muted kaleidoscopic print that was inspired by India and a slim pantsuit made of intricately assembled panels of shimmering jade fabric. Front Row: Pre-Fall Collections from C?line, Chlo? and Prabal Gurung 2012-01-11T22:23:45Z “Caravan,” the show’s centerpiece, was a sultry immersion in exotica whose aura of romantic mystery was distilled by Mr. Tucker’s muted trumpet, enhanced by Ms. Aimée’s vocal curlicues and firmly grounded in Mal Stein’s drumming. Music Review: Cyrille Aim?e and the Surreal Band at Birdland 2012-02-17T22:43:09Z The muted language of "caring" for each other is painful, the argument's resolution predictable: "After thinking quite a lot about this incomprehensible fit of hysteria he decided the best procedure was to ignore it." Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z These black roses grow from cracked pavements Freshly watered with the tears of the voiceless As we’ll emit a muted scream to the heavens: We. A Cri de Coeur From Jazz Musicians in a Black Lives Matter Age 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z Dark skies, a rainstorm and a muted color palette all suggest something ominous lurking just offscreen. The New ‘It’ Trailer Is Here to Give You Nightmares 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Alexandro’s special, shot at the small Queens club the Creek and the Cave, is creatively filmed, employing split screen and keeping the audience response muted in an attempt to capture his soft-spoken aesthetic. On Comedy: Appreciating the Comics Sean Patton and Ted Alexandro 2014-03-12T20:01:16Z The bright lights turned the tide from more muted and conservative fashions at the Academy Awards of the past few years which reflected with the world's economic woes. Hollywood's women wear red and sparkle to Oscars 2011-02-28T02:10:19Z Some of Jung’s paintings are imposingly large, but their green-on-green patterns are muted and require close inspection to comprehend. Review | In the galleries: Photos capture a fleeting moment, leave an indelible impression 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Indeed, to some she is little more than the mayor’s swell-looking but muted and tirelessly deferential girlfriend, wafting past photographers at public events in a spray of tulle and pearls. Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Companion, Diana Taylor, Gives a Rare Interview 2013-12-27T23:22:28Z The first movement didn’t weather the storm particularly well; the pounding rain created a percussive tableau through which wafted only muted fragments of Beethoven. Music Review: Emanuel Ax and Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Caramoor 2012-07-16T21:48:04Z A fog of muted sadness naturally hangs over the drama, since we know that the death of Ray’s father is near, and that a firm reconciliation between father and son is impossible. Review: ‘Aubergine,’ a Stew of Regret and Impending Loss 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z For anyone accustomed to getting laughs, silence from a muted audience is disconcerting, and it might help to see smiles. Perspective | Miss Manners: Keep camera on — but only if you can look interested 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z His talent in capturing the reflection of light off the rim of a water glass is muted in that setting. Louvre Bids to Keep a Chardin Bought by U.S. Museum in France 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “He’s not just muted or turned down, he’s in jail,” Hampton said. With R. Kelly on Trial, What Has Become of His Music? 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Solange is known for prints, bright colors and color blocking, but she’s definitely evolved and is embracing these nudes and muted colors and this softness. Solange Knowles’s Stylist Will Do Anything to Hunt Down a Look 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z In his muted way, he remained, like Saltykov, a defiant outsider, and he nurtured a fondness for the bluntness of Russians, and Russian life. Paul Foote obituary 2011-04-05T17:45:40Z Part of the Jean-Georges Vongerichten empire, this spacious restaurant, a study in muted glamour, is sibling to ABC Kitchen, the neighboring eatery, both located in the home store of the same name. Where to find the best vegan dining in Manhattan 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z My tattoo was a reclamation: a tiger lily, muted orange, Art Nouveau style. Modern Love: When a Former Life Beckons 2011-01-14T00:17:13Z The vast, antiseptic, eerily muted presentation of the new version only emphasizes what is a controlled simulation on a studio set. The Grocery Store of the Mind 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Politicians wear black, gray, blue and occasionally red; offices are painted and outfitted in tastefully muted furnishings. “House of Cards” returns: Let the war between Frank and Claire Underwood begin 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But the muted, distant quality of the characterizations seems as much a problem of the work as a directorial choice. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z “Bottega Veneta’s Cruise collection offers the muted, neutral tones that are certain to inspire you,” the company’s Web site says reassuringly. Critical Shopper: Boutique Features Bottega Veneta Resort Line 2012-01-18T20:00:05Z We couldn’t hear much, and I accidentally muted our cheers as my parents laughed and said, “I do … again.” The Lockdown Gave My Parents a Honeymoon Do-Over 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z On “Cherokee,” Marshall’s lyrics identify with the fatalism of the native world, just as the muted vocal and heaving synths sound strangely prehistoric. Cat Power Shines on Sun 2012-09-07T12:00:25Z However well executed the more muted episodes are, the big, insane spectacles are what make “Community” so special. “Community” botches damage control 2012-05-24T16:00:00Z Such bold thrills are notably absent from 's quiver – just how are their more muted charms going to command the attention of a damp 60,000-strong stadium audience? Coldplay – review 2012-06-03T17:00:01Z Each new element appeared unexpectedly, yet precisely, as a frenetic double bass solo eased into delicate passagework, then was infringed on, first by a low electronic growl, next by forlorn muted calls from the trombone. Review: Wet Ink Ensemble Pays Tribute to Anthony Braxton 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The film seems to be settling into a muted denouement. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z After a piano cluster chord detonates near the midpoint, there is a brief turn toward jazzlike suavity, including pizzicato bass and some stellar muted trumpet. 17 Players in Five States, Composing Over the Internet 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z In its first moments, “When We Fell,” Kyle Abraham’s new dance film for New York City Ballet, establishes its tone: muted, attuned to melting subtleties. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Calm Control of Bodies and Space 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in The Daughter. Geoffrey Rush: 'I still think I'm 37' 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The scene’s muted colors are contrasted by blood spurting from throats, abdomens and chests. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 10: On Your Way, Soldier 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Emotions, too, are purposely muted, leaving the actors with little to play as the siblings, telling no one of their ordeal, withdraw from their bewildered family. | 'Daniel & Ana': Siblings in Mexico City, Criminally Exploited 2010-08-27T01:59:00Z Waithe's presence is pretty subdued as actors go, but her muted expressiveness conveys what she's feeling – the food, the music, the stolen roadside interlude – by way of a couple of quick nods and intense chewing. "Master of None" returns for an unexpected third season with "Moments in Love" 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z For an evening that felt like a muted celebration — at best — this moment stood out more than a Spielberg trailer could. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2021 Oscars 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Patel, the columnist, said he was not surprised by the muted reaction. In ‘Hindutva or Hind Swaraj,’ a Warning Against Hindu Nationalism 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The bent figure is camouflaged by contrasting textures in shades of green and gold, from which the figure gradually emerges, grounding the sense of muted grief. Best Art of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z “The Low Down Up On High,” the finale, flows with muted brasses and woodwinds, like bittersweet gospel. Music Review: At the Philharmonic, an Uneven Blend of Jazz 2010-09-23T05:53:00Z Tweak some details and switch the setting from suburban America to a coastal town in Argentina and it’s also the entire plot of Mariano Biasin’s familiar but muted coming-out drama “Sublime.” ‘Sublime’ Review: Two Boys, One in Love 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z The way this ensemble has enriched its delivery of this ballet from the inhibited, muted accounts seen five years ago is a most heartening achievement. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-16T22:42:20Z She was dressed with muted whimsy, in a denim jacket with a fringe collar, black culottes and white Nike Air Max sneakers, like a poet at her day job. Gender Is a Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z But because Obama was cool and "progressive" and America's first black president, the protests was muted. Justice and the Enemy by William Shawcross ? review 2012-02-10T11:00:01Z The darkly muted colors, evoking gathering storms and winter chill, add a brooding note. Movie Review: ‘In Secret,’ Directed by Charlie Stratton 2014-02-20T22:51:13Z Even limited to an appropriately dark and muted palette, the level designers manage to present environments that are sharp and filled with detail. Batman: Arkham City?A Knight to Remember 2011-10-18T17:22:37Z So was the asparagus and prosciutto frittata, though sharp Gorgonzola melted on top muted the flavors inside. Tuscan Tea Room: an oasis of serenity, finesse 2011-10-27T20:10:08Z Although CBS' stock fell six percent on Friday, reaction on social media since the New Yorker piece published seems relatively muted. CBS chief Les Moonves faces sexual misconduct accusations. Is it time to air out the place? 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Twentieth-century influences are muted over all; this is mostly a show of antique Americana. Art Review: ?Jubilation/Rumination? at American Folk Art Museum 2012-01-27T00:08:07Z As she put it in 2004, “only dead celebrities” would deign to appear on the network, to sit on its muted pastel sets and gesture toward gold-plated necklaces. The Triumph of the Celebrity Endorsement 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The slick design — leather in muted colors, steel and aluminum accents, and silly lighting — was one thing, but I’ve dealt with worse. Lost in Las Vegas 2011-02-04T19:55:00Z The rugs that Mr. McCollough and Mr. Hernandez saw were no doubt muted in color, but to make their patterns modern, they intensified the mustard, crimson, orange and tan. New York Fashion Week: Fashion Review: Tech Pushes Tradition Into the 21st Century 2011-02-18T02:01:11Z The outward drama is muted, relatively speaking, and the real action takes place in the silences and the minds of the red house's occupants. 'The Red House': Looking for the heart of family in a narcissistic age 2012-07-03T21:01:09Z In his press tour for “Spare” — and in the past few years, for that matter — Harry’s wardrobe has been notably muted, devoid of many eye-catching touches of the good or bad varieties. Analysis | Prince Harry’s rejection of fashion is a fashion statement of its own 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z In O’Leary’s recent photography book, “Record,” she depicts not the high-saturation drama of the political arena, but the “muted purpose” of federal buildings and the unnamed and unnoticed workers who fill them. D.C. is a city of grand monuments and federal buildings. These photos capture the often unseen poetic details. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z We were traveling in the Sierra’s rain shadow, where the low rainfall — less than six inches most years — results in a color scheme for the wide-open landscape that runs to browns and muted greens. Rugged Country, Rugged History in California?s Owens Valley 2010-05-06T21:41:00Z Where One Direction makes ecstatic love songs meant for universal recognition, Malik creates—or exudes, really—a downcast swirl of muted soul and R. & B. designed to establish a sense of intimacy. Zayn Malik Would Like You to Know That He Is a Cool Adult Now 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z His dramas play well in festival and international settings thanks to their muted narrative rhythms and keen focus on character. Spanish film "Biutiful" stands out in Cannes crowd 2010-05-18T00:23:00Z The palette is muted and shadowy, and sometimes limited to proximate tones, as in a picture of a maroon garment on a bedspread that’s almost the same color. Review | In the galleries: Contemporary images cast a striking new light on the Arab world 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z But since Ms. Van Roy began telling her story, the response from the rest of the film industry has been muted. An Influential French Director Is Accused of Sexual Abuse. The Reaction Has Been Muted. 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Both muted and boisterous, they challenge the conventional history of abstraction and reflect the talents of the Gee’s Bend collective, especially those of the Pettway family. At the Met, a Riveting Testament to Those Once Neglected 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z With wind-swept shorelines and muted hues, the landscapes of the Outer Cape serve as both magnet and muse for artists. 36 Hours on Outer Cape Cod 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z While works at all levels sold well, bidding was measured and the salesroom atmosphere somewhat muted, with most of the top lots selling for below the pre-sale estimates. Christie's NY has its best Impressionist, modern sale since 2010 2014-05-07T04:00:00Z High above the muted tundra stood the tallest peak in North America, and a stunningly beautiful backdrop for a bike ride. Measuring Family Milestones, Beneath America’s Tallest Peak 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z They progress from pieces rarely more than 12 inches on a side, which are dominated by various shapes against contrasting backgrounds, to somewhat larger works in more muted yet sumptuous monochromes. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z And they are beautifully embellished: subtle, Motown strings on Is That Enough and muted brass on Two Trains. Yo La Tengo: Fade – review 2013-01-13T00:05:18Z Nevertheless, Soy’s signature dish, spiritually speaking, must be its “tofu steak,” in which Ms. Kizawa glazes pan-crisped slices of tofu with a muted mushroom sauce. Soy on the Lower East Side 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z But Big Blue is still here, an aging behemoth that presides over a muted cityscape of industrial buildings in varying states of decay. Can rural America be saved? A new national ‘challenge’ tries to see. 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z But with this setup, such a message is all but muted. Review: ‘Killing Ground’ Will Make You Rethink That Camping Trip 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The problem is that the sound is too muted, only really packing a punch during the set's more functional, house-oriented second half, after the guests and musicians have gone. Hercules & Love Affair – review 2012-08-08T16:44:23Z Danes and Hiddleston both appear drained, muted as the landscape, the chemistry between them less believable than the Loch Ness Monster. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z Though the high-end flower landscape is dominated by muted palettes, Mr. Harris works with colors that are unapologetically bright — sometimes neon — popping through layers that evoke something different every time. Maurice Harris Is a Superstar. Can He Bend Capitalism to His Talents? 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The home is a recently renovated 1920s bungalow with original hardwood floors, new granite countertops and fresh coats of paint in muted tones throughout, priced at $469,900. Can D.C. build a $45 million park for Anacostia without pushing people out? 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z I felt vulnerable as well, and this performance claimed me from the first moments, when the cellos played the muted, solemn descending first line. Review: For 9/11 Tribute, the Met Opera Returns Home 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z The trumpeter Philip Cobb, who at 21 became principal of the London Symphony Orchestra, played with total clarity, and reserved an affecting quiver for the second movement’s muted lament. Osmo Vanska Conducts the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z The only films that dropped were the three new ones, suggesting that word-of-mouth was muted at best. Box Office: Sly Preys on Julia, World Beats Pilgrim 2010-08-15T07:55:00Z At one point, a merger of muted, slowly strummed acoustic guitar and pitched percussion felt like the announcement of a new level of craft. For a Composer, the Final Minutes Are Critical 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z But we enter another world in the second movement, which begins with a muted, austere chorale for strings that becomes a backdrop for the piano’s questioning, eerie melodic phrases. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:45:27Z After more than two years of being made sluggish and clumsy by MS, my mind muddied and muted, I was wide awake. The drugs do work: my life on brain enhancers 2013-05-03T22:00:00Z The energy was so tense and muted that at one point a guest, the actor Jaimie Alexander, asked the audience “You guys are all asleep, aren’t you?” Kelly Ripa Strikes a Powerful Chord in Her Return to 'Live!' 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z It consists of an extreme closeup of Bullen singing, slowed down so you can see his muscles working as he silently bawls – Titchner has muted his friend. Home of Metal turns the Midlands up to 11 2011-07-10T20:30:02Z They were impressive, but none was harrowing; the overall effect of the opera was muted, bloodless. Review: ‘Ainadamar’ Turns Lorca Into Death-Haunted Opera 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Gardner and the Philharmonia did fine things with its sensuous textures and muted turbulence. Philharmonia/Gardner – review 2013-02-19T18:09:42Z The food at Ankara is, for the most part, a muted version of the real deal. Ankara delivers muted tastes of Turkey in Dupont Circle 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Best line: Violet’s trumpet was muted tonight, but Edith had a nicely tart response to Mary’s speculations about Rose’s pregnancy: “As usual, you add two and two and make 53.” ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 2: Of Pearls and Swine 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z It's an uncharacteristically muted collection, often mourning failed relationships. Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray - review 2012-11-14T08:00:03Z On the walls, muted landscapes and photography; Mr. Keaton is a collector, especially of midcentury, smoky Americana images. In ‘Birdman,’ Michael Keaton Confronts the Nature of Fame 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z As anyone who remembers “JFK,” his 1991 film about the Kennedy assassination, can attest, Mr. Stone has his own paranoid tendencies, but they are muted in this provocative, if shallow, exaltation of Latin American socialism. | 'South of the Border': Oliver Stone, Tour Guide 2010-06-24T23:25:00Z Scored for muted piano, cymbal and two variable speed turntables, its eerie melody is created from frequencies produced by test-tone records. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z That’s short enough that the wood doesn’t overtake the corn character, yielding a drink marked by earthy, buttery notes and muted sweetness. Six great whiskies from around the world 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z For the traditional look, choose an assortment of small pumpkins and squash in muted colors that complement the surrounding style. Instant Pumpkin Displays 2010-09-29T22:24:00Z His home is full of muted tones and white dishware, and mine is a dizzying mix of colors and patterns. My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me) 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The muted illustrations sometimes look like watercolors on bone — they feel that bone deep. The Storybook Marriage of Alice and Martin Provensen 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z His muted reactions, he said, are a “global language.” Khaby Lame, the Everyman of the Internet 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Some of this year’s other designs include a moodier, more muted setting, which uses Royal Copenhagen’s new Black Fluted porcelain in matte black. Royal Copenhagen’s Annual Show of Magical Tablescapes 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z One consists of single shots, hand colored with muted hues. Review | In the galleries: A pictorial stew examines the seamy side along the corridors of power 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z It was all dreamlike and vague, emotionally muted even during a solo by Mr. Endsley, who played in a pacifying murmur. Music Review | Kneebody: Tinges of Electro-Pop and Some Ives, Too 2010-02-19T06:17:00Z The Christian message is nicely muted — the real Travis Freeman, appearing as a preacher in a dream sequence, provides most of it — but the movie ultimately equates “inspirational” with “touchdown.” ‘23 Blast,’ About Football and Christianity 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In this show, for instance, the audience, 2,700 strong, was muted. Comedy via Zoom: It’s the Golden Age of Mugging 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z So when he began writing “Pain and Glory,” he did not have Banderas in mind to play the lead: What use would the actor’s boundless vitality be in a muted role like that? Why Pedro Almodóvar’s Newest Film Frightened His Friends 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s redeemed by bleak cinematography, muted performances and understated relationships that convey the panic and despair of those early days, but also the rare, heady dawning of fellowship forged in grief. The TV Watch: 9/11?s Pain Through the Prism of TV 2011-09-08T14:12:24Z Joseph Haj's "Henry V" staging is a cogent, fairly straightforward saga of triumph, with a muted visual palette of grays and blacks. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z Small formats, elemental motifs and muted hues are among the attributes that link much of the work in Long View Gallery’s multi-artist “Holiday Group Show.” In the galleries: Phantom people make a statement — a beautiful one 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Some of these artists obviously had political convictions, but they are often muted or entirely absent in their imagery. Phillips Collection’s Neo-Impressionism exhibit captures movement’s escapist mood Driftwood accents, billowy curtains and muted tones imbue a relaxed, sophisticated ambience, while living-plant walls add a tropical element. A South Beach Hotel Takes Its Cues From Nature 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Chansky’s muted tone causes the story to slag, but it is appropriate to his view of Scott’s achievement in joining the team — as something significant, but not quite in the Jackie Robinson category. This Season’s Books on Sports: A Roundup 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Yet this glowing powerhouse can be rivetingly muted, subtly eloquent, possessed of marvelous stillness. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The theme music is startlingly similar, if more muted, and so is the faded sepia and gray cinematography. Television Review: ?Hell on Wheels? on AMC ? Review 2011-11-03T22:25:01Z Mr. Angle, a wonderful partner who can often be a muted personality onstage, brought real force to his weighted, hooked-arm movement. Dance Review: Romanticism and Modernism, Joined by the Violin 2010-09-27T23:29:00Z Even the most boisterous mourners were muted after passing through for their viewings. Aretha Franklin’s Fans Say Goodbye, With Tears and Dance Moves 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z There’s dissonance; the celebration is muted, reticent, almost secretive. 400 Days Later, the New York Philharmonic Returns 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z While the reaction to Chris Rock’s last stint as Oscar host was somewhat muted, hopes are high that the comedian will be able to add some much-needed edge to this week’s ceremony. Chris Rock: five best moments 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z One reason for the recent rise in dance's popularity, worldwide, is that the art form represents an alternative to the manipulated and muted experience of the screen. Is digital ballet as good as the real thing? – open thread 2013-07-04T15:18:43Z Unlike newspapers and television of the Vietnam era, which reported dramatic stories of draft file burnings and the resultant trials, contemporary media seem bored with nonviolent actions, so the voices have been muted.” ‘Doing Time for Peace’: hard time for the peacemakers 2013-03-27T22:28:15Z To my left, a dirty window muted the glare. My Marriage: A Course in Desert Survival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z God also included a special message for “mine handmaid Emma,” whom he correctly imagined might greet the new doctrine with muted enthusiasm: Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z That sober tone is anchored by Mitchell Hebert’s sharp turn as the muted, pained Henry. Life is short, so touch the painting 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Unlike season four, which began in muted, bucolic tones, this installment promises to debut with total discord. Everything You Need to Know Before Season 5 of The Walking Dead 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z You can see the muted pattern on back of the found textile, and how Ms. Blystad created a counterpoint to this with her own composition on the other side. What to See in New York ArtGalleries This Week 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z There’s very little electric guitar on this album; the drumming is urgent but muted. New Music From Real Estate, My Brightest Diamond, Harold O?Neal 2011-10-17T22:37:44Z With their severely muted colors, Hammershoi’s portraits and pictures of women in nearly empty rooms may call to mind the suavely subdued paintings of James McNeill Whistler. Vilhelm Hammershoi’s Paintings at Scandinavia House 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Then for all the reenactments, while I did use victims' accounts of what Cline's office looked like, I wanted those muted pink and blue tones in his office. "Our Father" filmmaker's ode to "Handmaid's Tale" as an IVF "horror story" of consent 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z My memories of early childhood are mostly vague: a muted palette of inconsistency and confusion, lacking defined edges or chronology. Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z The song oscillates between muted disappointment and, on a surging chorus, defiant hope: “I’ve been known to move a little fast,” Williamson sings. Chloë Tangles With Future, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z The final 24 hours of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, in bookends: At noon Tuesday, in a muted pageant of utter competency, Joe Biden’s nominees began to submit themselves for Senate confirmation. The last day of Donald 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z She was drawn to the material by its muted tone, which she said helps make spaces “feel airy, bright, and light,” and look more like those in Scandinavian homes. Long a Foundational Material, Concrete Is Now a Finishing Touch 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “Hues have become more prominent, and today, it’s the brighter, the better, which has evolved from far more muted tones,” she said. Skin Deep: Skin Deep - Inspiration Is Coming From India 2012-07-18T16:20:03Z Mr. Johnston’s voice soared at the climax, but the audience’s reaction was muted. Karaoke Singers Live the Dream at the Illinois State Fair 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z The newly muted atmosphere “could change the entire course of how the playoffs play out,” he said. The Shows Must Go On. But They Aren’t the Same Without You. 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z I've dangled a carrot in front of the Eden Project, but to only a muted response. Simon Armitage: a poetic pilgrimage around Devon and Cornwall 2013-03-29T16:00:04Z The arrangements broke no ground but made expressive use of the band’s palette, often calling on the saxophonists to double on flute while adding a layer of muted horns. Music Review: Words and Music: A Jazz Trumpeter Plays, Sings and Blogs 2011-03-02T22:19:39Z “Journey” is not quite a drama; it has a curiously muted quality that comes together in your head more clearly after the curtain has dropped. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-07T22:26:02Z The reaction to Karem has so far been more muted, perhaps because he is a less recognizable figure than Acosta and possibly because banning reporters is no longer so unusual. Stephanie Grisham is Trump’s communications czar. Only most people wouldn’t know it. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z If the “Fast and Furious” movies went all-electric, and the grunt of gasoline engines was muted, the series could still rely on Vin Diesel’s voice to fill out the low end of the sonic spectrum. What’s on TV This Week: ‘After Yang’ and the State of the Union 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z There is something intriguing and yet exasperating about this strange, muted film, adapted by screenwriter Alex Garland from the novel, and directed by Mark Romanek. Never Let Me Go - review 2011-02-10T22:46:01Z When shopping for new pieces or reproductions, look for lacy details and muted colors that won’t clash with your heirlooms. Christmas Table: 6 Ways 2010-12-01T17:40:00Z A consequence might be a class of films that feels celebratory yet mild, neat, muted, pasteurized, cinematically and politically. Movies Survived 2020. The Oscars Diversified. There’s More to Do. 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Fine, here's a scene where two of One Direction have a muted conversation about their confusion over what miso soup is. One Direction: This Is Us trailer – the film that brings you 1D in 3D 2013-07-23T13:01:00Z Black comedy is the show’s default style; the evening is a muted reveling in bleakness. A heavy toll of Puppet Death 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z She uses decorative elements such as found seashells and painted fleurs-de-lis, but maintains a muted palette. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z It's all a bit tame, predictable and muted; the inevitable revelation of German decency seems contrived and there's an outrageous plot cop-out towards the end. Cross of Honour – review 2012-09-27T21:15:02Z Many prefer muted memorials such as Kollwitz's statues, or the graveyard-like Holocaust memorial in Berlin, for their stark simplicity that speaks movingly without words. 'Grieving Parents' statues wend way across Europe for war dead 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Woody Allen brought "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," but reaction to all three among Cannes' famously picky audiences was muted. Boring or beautiful? Cannes winner splits critics 2010-05-24T08:21:00Z Hong Kong-based Young also stages muted concerts - in which musicians are asked to play with the same vigour as usual, just without making any noise. New wave of Chinese art hits UK 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z New York’s traditional New Year’s Eve celebration was uncharacteristically muted. The Year in Limbo 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z Despite the anxiety that inspired these songs, there’s a sense of muted joy to “Strange to Explain,” thanks partly to the warm keyboards that frame it. Woods Became David Berman’s Band. Then They Picked Up the Pieces. 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z On the mellow end there’s “Together Is a Beautiful Place to Be,” a blend of muted drums and light keys, and “Stand With Each Other,” a spare tune bolstered by delicate sighs. Nubya Garcia, Tapping Into the Past to Make Jazz for a New Generation 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z Central to the Spartans' programming is a complete erasure of memories and identity, along with muted sensation and emotional response. Paramount unmasks "Halo" for a perfect launch to the long-awaited video game adaptation 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z While the original was black and white, my grandmother's rendering featured the bright red offsetting the muted colors of the urban streetscape. A mother's vanishing: A secret that haunted my family for generations, hiding in plain sight 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z A muted return meeting with Michael reveals his underwhelming back story. Review: In ‘Lace Crater,’ Regretting That Tryst With a Ghost 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Instead of dishing on upcoming episodes of the Bravo hit, the reality star and her husband, Joe, were understandably muted. Teresa Giudice tells Andy Cohen about her fears for prison 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z That deliberately muted aesthetic was meant to underscore the show’s darkly comic and unsettling themes. How Do You Dress a Russian Doll? 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The tremendous, magical trick that Young achieves in his portrayal is to present Daniel as a man of intense feelings simmering beneath muted facial expressions and a flat vocal affect. Lonely, at last: Brilliant drama “Rectify” soothes and breaks our hearts for one final season 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The sun was poking through the clouds dotting the sky, and off in the background was the distinct but muted rushing sound of the river. Few minorities visit Sequoia National Forest or the Sawtooth Wilderness. This man wants to change that. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The palette was muted, mainly black, white and khaki, but the contrasts in the 57-look show were delivered through the intentionally contradictory styles of dress. Secret gardens and co-ed styles hit Paris men’s collections 2019-06-22T04:00:00Z The reaction to this development inside the traditional television business has been largely muted, with many executives suggesting that only the quality of the work is important. Netflix Dominates Speculation Over Emmy Awards 2013-07-16T22:42:14Z Generally this would be supplied by percussion, but here it’s a single muted guitar string. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z But Shaday, recorded in unfocused sessions in Somerset and Paris, with Brill producing, appeared to a muted reception. Ofra Haza: Madonna of the dark soul 2010-12-09T21:20:00Z On the second floor of the Heritage Foundation, senior legal fellow Charles Stimson muted CNBC, put on Chopin and worked the report with a yellow highlighter and yellow sticky notes. ‘It’s absolutely gripping.’ Washington races to make sense of the Mueller report 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z His death was like his life: strangely muted given the magnitude of his achievements. On TV, a quiet exit for first man on the moon 2012-08-26T23:30:20Z To some, the change appeared to be timed to ensure a muted public response. What the TSA’s new body-scanner rules mean for you 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Instead, the Troubles exhibit, say its critics, is small, muted and evasive. Belfast's Ulster Museum and the trouble with the Troubles 2010-05-19T15:35:00Z But she was brief and the moment muted. Inside the CFDA Awards, With Issa Rae, Kim Kardashian West and Naomi Campbell 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Recycling the same material, albeit with different emphases, is a risky manoeuvre, and it's made more so by the naturally muted, inward focus of Marston's style. Bern Ballett: Witch-Hunt – review 2013-05-23T17:21:10Z We both disgraced ourselves with ineffectively muted giggles throughout the rest of the piece. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z As in the painting, there are six people, costumed by Reid Bartelme in richly muted fabrics that faithfully reimagine Picasso’s designs. Dance Review: Lar Lubovitch Dance at Gould Hall 2012-11-16T23:12:29Z The Weeknd’s recordings occupy a claustrophobic space, with ghostly atmospherics, muted tones and mutated instrumentation. The Weeknd concert at Chicago Theatre 2013-10-14T04:28:00Z Leningrad in the nineteen-seventies was a closed, stultifying world all to itself, a microcosm of the Soviet Union: a universe of muted grays and beige, where nothing much seemed to ever change. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The men dressed in muddy browns, the women in muted red dresses, each of the five performers unveils a particular skill across the hour. Cantina – review 2012-06-09T23:05:43Z And a sense of absence, of muted melancholy runs like a subtle leitmotif throughout the show. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Returning to Where the Dream Began 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z The color palette was muted with rich grays, navy and black, which was highlighted with sparkling metallics and a splash of raspberry red. Dresses go flouncy, slinky at London Fashion Week 2010-09-17T17:18:00Z “I would say a few things,” Chelsea Clinton offered, deliberately, through a muted smile. Chelsea Clinton wants to talk about her kids’ book. Her readers have other ideas. 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z In another, more complete yet muted, she seems shrouded in twilight; in yet another, she seems struck by moonlight. Art Review: ‘Gauguin: Metamorphoses’ at MoMA Goes Beyond Paintings 2014-03-13T19:24:47Z Where the artist’s attractively muted prints are largely in earth and rain tones, punctuated by an occasional red slash, her sculptural paintings boast a city-street vitality. In the galleries: Jason Gubbiotti’s ‘War Paint’ at Civilian Art Projects There was no lack of energy in the Philharmonic’s reading, but those crucial contrasts sounded politely muted. Music Review: Alan Gilbert Leads New York Philharmonic 2010-06-18T21:26:00Z But as a presentation of Mozart’s darkly twisted look at love and lust, it’s very, very cautious — muted both dramatically and comedically. A ‘comedy’ about a seducer? Seattle Opera tackles new version of ‘Don Giovanni’ with skill and caution 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z Chopped fresh ginger and turmeric are not only revitalizing ingredients, but they also help create the drink's muted yellow hue. The easiest trick to save your leftover smoothie 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The statue is brand-new and cast in bronze, but looks weathered, with muted colors and surfaces appearing to crack and peel. Now Visiting From India, an ‘Ancestor’ for Everyone 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z This is an earnest, tastefully done hotel with muted rooms that don’t compete with stunning views of Lake Mendota — whether it’s frozen solid or filled with sailboats. In Wisconsin, a Tastefully Redone Lakeside Hotel 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z In the two more-complex Downing paintings, some of the dots are white, which accentuates the canvas’s muted tan and sets off the circles of blue, green and shades of brown. In the galleries: Showcasing an artist’s exploration and influence 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z It was hot, but a gray sky had muted the park’s colors — pale greens and browns. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The news also means that the Patrick Dempsey-and-Chandra Wilson-starring “Grey’s,” heading into its 11th season, will air in a time period in which some of its more adult content may need to be muted. Upfronts 2014: ABC doubles down on Shonda Rhimes amid schedule shuffle 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z A dreamy "cloudy moon" print in a sloped-hem sleeveless dress above the knee had a muted white orb on top, fading into a sky of mauve and blue. NY Fashion Week inspired by faraway lands 2012-09-11T19:41:16Z The new upstairs restaurant — the focus of this review — finds white oak floors, handsome settees, muted lighting and brick walls that show off the handiwork of Pitts’s artist father. Review | Cork Wine Bar consolidates and updates — but the food is the same old same old 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z I stand and sang again at the commercial breaks and muted the television advertisements. Being a caregiver for the elderly prematurely aged me 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Here the music softens to a muted horn and the sound of brushes whisking a drum. Dance Review: Garth Fagan Dance at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-09-29T01:40:07Z One morning after her death, I woke to the muted drone of a neighbor’s lawn mower, and the sound cut through me like a blade. Perspective | On Mother’s Day, my daughter was 10 weeks old, and my mom had 3 weeks to live 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z These square iPhone pictures, billed as “an accidental archive” of Washington, often employ muted color and narrow depth of field, making them almost as dreamlike as Zafran’s photos. Review | In the galleries: These are not your usual travel pictures 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The fourth season starts more muted, and finds the four main characters — Noah, Helen, Alison and Cole — isolated from one another and involved in their own relationships. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Affair’ and ‘Parts Unknown’ 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Several Nashville natives are part of the mix, including Kit Reuther, who is known for her abstract paintings and sculptures in muted tones. Five Places to Go in Nashville 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The atmosphere was instead one of muted worry. Fate and furies 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z “The Low Down Up On High,” the final movement, flows with muted brass and winds, like bittersweet gospel. Music Review: At the Philharmonic, an Uneven Blend of Jazz 2010-09-23T05:53:00Z Daylight muted the opulent reds and golds of the abandoned Grand Foyer, its monumental stillness fraught with grief. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra reunite, and it’s a joyful noise 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z As I sat, emptying my bladder, I listened to the city shifting awake, her sounds muted in the early-morning light. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Colors so muted and timid that they barely register. Gene is shaken to the normcore That’s characteristic of this production, whose message and delivery are both curiously muted. Review: Afro-Colombian Dancing Reawakens the Joyce Theater 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The microphones will not be muted for the latter portion. Final presidential debate will have muted microphones 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z For someone known for playing brash characters in films like "Do the Right Thing" and "White Men Can't Jump," Perez made a surprisingly muted debut. 'The View' returns with new hosts -- and a barefoot Rosie O'Donnell 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Non-profane lyrics such as “with my leather black jeans on” were muted for over 30 second intervals. Kanye West is sick of being censored, apologizes to fans for Billboard Awards 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z But while it’s often funny, the fun is muted. Movie Review: ‘The Secret Disco Revolution’ Has a Political Subtext 2013-06-28T04:23:11Z The appetite for excitement can't be sated with snacks of muted incident, however salted with irony. All That Follows by Jim Crace 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z But the players seemed even more uncoiled and passionate on Sunday, particularly in a kaleidoscopic account of the Fourth, with its spidery, muted third movement and all-plucked Allegretto. Music Review: The Takacs Quartet Interprets Bartok 2014-01-21T22:03:40Z In its slow movement, for example, rapidly bowed, muted string figures were overlaid with shrill woodwind timbres, and within that high-contrast fabric a quiet, intensely chromatic piano line created an air of mystery. Music Review: When Soloists Don?t Necessarily Star 2011-04-15T23:01:47Z A news release billed the scenes as exchanges, which is a stretch since the audience was muted — a wise idea regardless of where theater happens. Where Are We? Theatrical Adventures in Digital Dislocation 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Siggi's yogurt containers embrace white spaces, muted colors and straightforward imagery, highlighting only the crucial product details. Why more food, toiletry and beauty companies are switching to minimalist package designs 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The whole point of the building is to be a container for sunlight — muted sunlight, but sunlight nonetheless. The Crystal Cathedral redesign: Why tasteful updates add up to architectural disappointment 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z His final film, "Closing the Ring" in 2007, received mixed responses and was deemed a muted finale to his distinguished directorial career. British PM leads tributes to UK film veteran Richard Attenborough 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z His work is impressionistic: these exquisite frames, and then that blown colour palette, muted overall with flashes of colour. Todd Haynes: ‘She said, there’s a frock film coming up, with Cate attached … It sounded right up my alley’ 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Elizabeth, the world’s eldest and longest-reigning monarch, typically spends her birthday privately without much public celebration but this year the event will be even more muted. Muted celebrations as Britain's Queen Elizabeth turns 94 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z While generally admired by critics, the drama, which opens in November during the heat of awards season, is notably muted in tone, despite its timely subject matter following the legalization of gay marriage in America. And the Oscar might go to: the sure bets and underdogs critics have already seen 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Boulevards of bleating traffic to muted side streets. The runner's view of Los Angeles: Its landscape, its people, and the BBQ at mile 10 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The boxiness, muted palette and televisions conjure an airport lounge, but a casual attitude abounds. South Beach for the Local Crowd 2013-01-25T23:11:47Z I don’t remember what I felt, exactly, except a strange, muted combination of incredulity and acceptance. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z It was the running theme of the night, while curiously the discussion around #MeToo at the first Emmys ceremony since The New York Times’s Harvey Weinstein story broke last year was noticeably muted. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2018 Emmys 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z A declamatory and virtuosic cadence by Mr. Dicterow led into a muted passage that was utterly absorbing in its balance of stillness and suspense. Music Review: Farewells Begin for New York Philharmonic’s Glenn Dicterow 2014-01-20T22:26:57Z It was all brightly executed, yet after two hours with a similar impact, the climactic effect was muted. Review | Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Paquita’: Glittering dancing but a skimpy story 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z When the city started to swing, the former convent girl joined in, albeit mutedly. Rita Tushingham on life after A Taste of Honey: 'It was a shock when the 60s ended' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z When Halt and Catch Fire premiered last year, it was considered, at best, a muted success. From Breaking Bad to Blackadder: the great TV shows with patchy first seasons 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Though the black dresses and tutus are shown in muted light, the varied textures are so visible they almost beg to be touched. New exhibit shows Rodarte fashions as sculptures 2011-03-03T21:16:32Z You use an eyebrow pencil in a muted brown, and you draw just on the outside of your upper lip. Ashley Graham Talks Breastfeeding, Postpartum Hair Loss and Her Best Beauty Hack 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The quintet’s mythology fills only a half-page of the 400-page Marvel Encyclopedia; pleas for immortalizing them on film have been muted. REVIEW: Marvel's 'Guardians of the Galaxy': The Expendables In Outer Space 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z As kayakers on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn towed Mr. Sharp, on electric guitar, and a series of floating amplifiers past a crowd of onlookers, he finger-tapped some muted, mutant trills. A Musical Solstice Spectacle Sprawls Across New York 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Oddly, the picture’s muted tone ultimately undercuts its solemn sense of mission. ‘Sound of Freedom’ Review: In the Land of Child Traffickers 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z On “Getting Older,” the muted, airy number that opens her second album, “Happier Than Ever,” Eilish announces that she’s entering a more candid phase. Billie Eilish’s Uneasy View From the Top 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z “For the long haul, in a home, most people are happier living with a more muted color,” Marcum says. How to make that DIY paint job look more professional 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Even her comparatively muted capsule collection for Topshop, which hit the main street giant’s shelves earlier this month, is what Ms. Katrantzou shrugs off as “a cacophony of print.” The Future of Fabric Prints Is Bright 2012-02-21T18:16:17Z “Bloom” doesn’t significantly alter the duo’s approach: shivering slide guitars, shimmering keyboards, muted percussion, Legrand’s disembodied voice floating in a thick haze of wordless backing harmonies. Album review: Beach House, 'Bloom' 2012-05-14T14:53:00Z While a concert setting flatters the colorful, graceful score and forgives the muted interpersonal drama and abstracted characters, the work is often less satisfying when staged, remaining on the cool side. Opera Review: ‘Damnation de Faust,’ Staged by Christian Spuck in Berlin 2014-02-24T16:23:16Z Pressing an F could produce a different note; another key might be muted. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Fans of Nors’ previous collection, “Karate Chop,” may detect an echo of that book’s eye for subtle violence, although it is even subtler, practically muted here. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Within the first few pages, the colors are muted to sage and dreary blue as Cece is hospitalized after contracting meningitis at age 4 and subsequently losing her hearing. Review: ‘El Deafo’ by Cece Bell The mid-point is Kajaani, whose art nouveau wooden station is painted in muted shades of grey and cream, reflecting the landscape. 10 of Europe’s best rural train journeys 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z A more muted song, “I Hope You Die,” unfolds in a fog of synthesizers; Ms. Wasner sings the title phrase as if bestowing a mercy, not a curse. The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4 2010-08-26T15:25:00Z Hints of trumpeting and steady, muted cymbal crashes reinforce the image. Music Review: Seven Composers, Seven Countries 2011-05-11T21:21:27Z With her barely there voice, the R&B singer whispers silken come-ons, a steady thrum ricocheting off a muted tabla drum. glaive Showcases His Less Hyper Pop, and 13 More New Songs 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z We live in a time when poetic styles seem to become more antic and frantic by the day, and Taylor's voice has been muted from the start. Little-known 90-year-old wins $100,000 poetry award 2010-04-15T15:17:00Z Before the sniffles, before the sharp inhales and heavy swallows — before, in other words, any of the typical sounds of crying — you hear the muted pitter-patter of a child’s tears making landfall on his T-shirt. How to Turn a Good Cry Into Good Cinema 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z There’s a sort of muted psychological pause with the win. Ryan Reynolds: from buff buffoon to Hollywood heavyweight 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z This has probably been the most muted build-up to an international tournament in living memory, with a widespread admission that the current crop of national team players just aren't all that. TV highlights 11/06/2012 2012-06-10T19:00:01Z Some of the humor seems muted, but the bittersweet theme, a conjugation of inaction and regret, is potent. Conor McPherson’s ‘Port Authority’ 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Some gowns were covered in muted sequins that gleamed like hammered metal, some made from burnt-orange stretch velvet, some dusty faded denim. The Brilliant Alchemy of Rick Owens 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Sound muted, it flashed new developments in the case of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old Cleveland boy killed by police in late November 2014 as he played with snowballs and a pellet gun in a park. Trauma and triumph: my father, his dementia and surviving segregation 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z But so much of his work was so muted in tone, brief in gesture and self-effacing in delivery that it made scant impression. A slow start for Blujazz week at the Showcase 2011-01-14T14:10:18Z His are ribbed with patch pockets in the same muted colors, but haven’t you seen them before? | Fashion Review: Milan Shows How It All Makes Sense 2011-02-26T00:49:18Z After hearing it, the recordings by the other versions sound somehow muted. Judy Collins Has a Time Machine 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Even if there is a partial recovery in demand, there are concerns that the appetite for nonessential items will be muted in a post-Covid era. For Festival Fashion, the Music Has Stopped 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z In an instant, the colorful forest around me — mostly red cedar trees and fern bushes — faded, leaving me in a world of muted gray. 88 Temples, 750 Miles, Untold Gifts: Japan’s Shikoku Pilgrimage 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z His muted ochres, grays and powdery blues conjured up a still, timeless world inhabited by Platonic forms, recognizable but uncanny, in part because he painted from imagination rather than life. William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z The opening track was recorded at a church fete: cutlery clatters mutedly, families chat, and, just as you're wondering what's going on, piano chords trickle in, soothing you to sleep. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins: Diamond Mine ? review 2011-03-24T21:59:01Z There's plenty of meat here, but the play is so stilted that its contemporary relevance is muted. The Moment of Truth – review 2013-07-01T17:08:20Z The shopgirl on the reworked left side, meanwhile, wears a more tailored dress in a muted steel gray. Art Review: Renoir?s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection 2012-02-09T13:00:00Z Yunkers’s print is one of several that incorporate color, often muted and autumnal. In the galleries: Collaged drawings that zig and zag at Adah Rose The sound in the second movement was hauntingly muted, like a dirge heard through the fog, and the ferocious finale almost uncomfortably vivid. Pacifica Quartet Presents Shulamit Ran Premiere and Classics 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z The pitch of director Michael Mayer’s production at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre, where “Burn This” had its official opening last week, is intentionally muted, until Driver’s Pale bursts into Anna and Larry’s apartment, drunk and high. Review | Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time. 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z All I know is that my online life got exponentially better when I muted the accounts of some very popular media Cassandras. Against attention scolding: Stop policing people’s so-called distractions 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Her signature palette includes muted peach, periwinkle, gray and lavender, which she creates by blending water-based paints with varnish or powdered pigment. An Artist Who Transforms Paintings Into Cosmic Sculptures 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Gingold said that for many horror films, there would be two ads, a more explicit one for The Post and The Daily News, then a muted version in The Times. Horror, Horror, Read All About It 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “For these characters, the colors had to be bright but muted, like family Polaroids from the period,” Powell said. Dressing ‘The Irishman’: Polyester Pantsuits and Capo Collars 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z It was a notably sharper tone from Harris’ typically muted and on-message public appearances, where she rarely diverts from talking points or prepared remarks. Harris sharply defends Biden in interview with Charlamagne 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z But everything seems glossy and muted, like a romantic novel without romance and Rabe's tragically forlorn and unappreciated existence after the war is not shown. Film review: City of War: The Story of John Rabe 2010-04-01T22:15:00Z The bright colors might be the most controversial part of the new look, Feldman said, because they are in stark contrast to the muted palette previously used. The National Gallery is back. And it’s done being subtle about its brand and mission. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z But there’s an oddly muted quality to these declarations, though they’re certainly heartfelt. Review: David Attenborough Is Back, and He Brought the Walruses 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Indeed, some dealers noted that the atmosphere overall seemed more muted than last year’s, with fewer collectors in attendance and less frenzied first-day buying — not entirely unexpected given the recent economic slowdown in China. Art Basel Hong Kong Opens to Less Frenzy 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Comic books are not a genre but a mode/medium/language through which any story, no matter how muted, can be told. A Superhero-Book Trailer for “Rusty Brown” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Before he landed the directing gig, he put together a presentation filled with images by artists like Mona Kuhn and William Eggleston to convey his aesthetic — soft focus, muted colors — with potential collaborators. Documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler says he's here to 'Stay' 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z I liked the dog they had with them, Blossom, and her funny muted growl. Between the Ears: On the Trail of the Snail ? review 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z Where "Fridge Wars" is a little more muted — with a sleek set and a light, percussive soundtrack — "Chef & My Fridge" has all the exuberance popular in many East Asian variety programs. "Fridge Wars" and "Chef & My Fridge" reflect the leftovers-style cooking we're all doing now 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z There’s mourning again in Henry Taylor’s muted “Homage to a Brother,” where behind the half-silhouetted torso of a departed boy, his name—Sean—stands in monumental capital letters. How Radical Can a Portrait Be? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z That was a delicate, muted mood piece — a terrific film, but far too subtle and downbeat for the Academy, which ignored it in the top-10 list of Best Picture nominations. The King's Speech: Toronto and the Lust for Oscar 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z He was not the only industry sage to detect a more muted tone. At Baselworld, Luxury Timepieces Detect a Slowdown 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Like Garth, I was muted by social anxiety, hypersensitive to attention and frustrated at being misunderstood; my favorite part of the movie was watching Garth’s sheepish exterior crack into boiling rage. ‘Wayne’s World’ & Me 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Stavans and Alcaraz collaborated nearly 15 years ago on “Latino USA: A Cartoon History,” and now they want to turn up the volume on the “muted reverence” for our Founding Fathers. ‘A Most Imperfect Union,’ a retelling of U.S. history by Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz Even if you have unfollowed or muted your ex, the chances are they will still come up in your feed if you remain friends with their friends. From ghosting to oversharing: the new rules of breakups 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z But anger is muted in the sound of these songs. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-03-08T07:40:00Z That seemed a long way from the 1950s elegance of the last season, but it made for a credible collection in muted colors and with rich textures. Fashion Review: Dries Van Noten Works Pieces of a Chinese Pattern 2012-02-29T18:49:13Z In the end, it is this that marks the project apart from its neighbours: a muted grey cadaver among a riot of mirrored facades and faux-stone panelling. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z The film's costume color palette was more muted, letting it recede into the background somewhat. Jacqueline Durran creates 'Mr. Turner' clothes with a lived-in look 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Particularly when the fashion industry is still feeling muted and unmoored. London, Fashion and the Importance of Being … Something 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z There was muted applause at the press screening ahead of a photocall, news conference and interviews for the drama in which Ryan Gosling plays the central role of press attache Stephen Myers. Clooney explores dirty politics in Venice film 2011-08-31T11:04:47Z Though the festival has been a more muted affair this year because of the pandemic, the 80-year-old Warwick has made the most of it. Dionne Warwick, star of a new documentary, keeps smiling 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It's easy to laugh, but The Real Thing is an authentically fantastic pop record: in a world of euphoria, it sounded strangely wistful and muted, its melancholy chafing against its plasticky bedroom production. The best No 1 records: Tony di Bart – The Real Thing 2012-05-31T20:18:00Z Despite a rather muted premiere at last year’s Toronto film festival, there’s been steady background noise accompanying literary drama The Wife. No cape required: your guide to the best alternative films this summer 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Issa toned down her usual tropical exuberance to pay homage to the designs associated with Native Americans, particularly the Navajo, in a more muted but elegant presentation. Rihanna, Issa light up London Fashion Week 2013-02-17T02:46:04Z Throughout his career Taylor rebelled against what he deemed the clutter of postmodernism, bringing forth the California Look, associated with a muted, beige palette and rustic glamour. A Pair of Michael Taylor Floor Lamps Is on the Block 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The initial welcome was more awed than ecstatic: muted applause and cheers from rescue workers still stunned that the improbable really worked. The TV Watch: Rescue on TV: Elation, Exhaustion and Elvis 2010-10-13T18:05:00Z He presents a matte and muted world, as if the paint were placed very thinly on the cinematic canvas so that the dry, powdery, abrasive surfaces peeked through. Albert Serra’s “Story of My Death” 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But he is the soul and center, slightly muted, his blues-shouting voice deep in the center of the sound mix, his organ solos simple and resonant. Allman Brothers Band, at Beacon Theater, Plays Final Concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z But Peggy remains dedicated to her principles, eventually cutting off all contact with her father after a muted confrontation in which she accuses him with the simple “Why?” The Irishman: the murder, the women, the ending – discuss with spoilers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Backlash against the municipal process reached a fever pitch over the summer when Ms. Thomas was abruptly muted and refused extra time during her testimony in a public hearing with the commission. San Francisco Reinstates Winning Design for Maya Angelou Monument 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z At the time, about four years ago, many of the defining qualities of that album—emotional forthrightness, a muted electronic and soul palette, a sense of intimacy—were rare, particularly at the center of pop. Zayn Malik Would Like You to Know That He Is a Cool Adult Now 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Pérez's use of fluid lines, muted color palette and characters with haunted eyes capture the show's eerie beauty and themes of loneliness, all set in a bustling apartment building. Those magical "Only Murders in the Building" main titles – including each hidden Easter egg 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Proof that Americans don’t care much about the rest of the world: the body politic’s minor, muted response to the demonstrations and the deaths, which came less than two months before the presidential election. Ben Affleck's Argo: Can a Fake Movie Save Real Lives? 2012-10-11T12:00:13Z Moving into live action, the colors are muted, the light diffuse. ‘The Cuban’ Review: Memories Lost and Reignited 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z A central chandelier, like a huge upside-down wedding cake, shines on vases of orchids whose pinks howl in this room of muted creams and golds. Imagination Worth the Added Price at Midtown’s La Chine 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z These two players would resurface again in the administration of a 21st-century presidency, when press scrutiny was muted by the trauma of 9/11. 'Poisoning the Press': Jack Anderson, Richard Nixon and a culture of secrecy and scandal 2011-03-23T22:59:06Z Rendered in muted colors, smooth, dry brushwork and with empty backgrounds, the paintings have a strange, moody ethereality. 2010-02-12T00:02:00Z My copy of the book sported a classroom-ready cover of muted grays and the title was announced in a blockish, sober font. Tayari Jones: In Praise of Ann Petry 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z It was true; the music sounded more familiar — more Bravo-like — at a muted level. The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Whisky tends to frequent these muted discussions among the older men. Why I'm making "comfort cake" this Yom Kippur 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z True to this Biennale’s frustratingly muted politics, no curatorial statement appears, acknowledging these issues. Venice Biennale: Whose Reflection Do You See? 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Released to mixed reviews, the host alluded to the stale acting from Depp and the muted response from cinema-goers with this sharp quip. 5 Times Ricky Gervais Has Rattled Hollywood's Cage At The Golden Globes 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The buildings' muted appearance places the focus where it should be: on the reserve itself and on the Banyan Tree's immaculate grounds, which feature a graceful Chinese garden. At the Water's Edge in Hangzhou 2010-05-20T11:30:00Z Its colors are muted; its dynamics and internal contrasts are limited. Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance at David H. Koch Theater 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z These muted watercolors, a response to the purported materialism of Western art, emphasized spiritual and natural themes. 36 Hours in Kolkata, India 2012-11-22T15:12:44Z “Hamilton” consistently finds muted, blurring shades — of feeling, of morality, of character — within its incident-and-fact-packed story without ever sacrificing narrative clarity. Review: In ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Forges Democracy Through Rap 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps in homage to those who first assembled newspaper cuttings into art, Huckenpahler employs muted colors and ragged forms. Review | In the galleries: Myths and respite at the American University museum 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z "The music hall a costly bow / The music all is lost for now / To a muted trumpeter swan." Van Dyke Parks: return of a musical maverick 2012-06-15T21:55:10Z “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “If I Stay” and “Let’s Be Cops” all generated muted ticket sales in the $5.5 million to $6.5 million range. 'Guardians' Draws Most at the Box Office, 'Identical' Very Few 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Matthiessen describes dazed seabirds wandering “the thick waters with sad muted cries, hunting seamarks that might return them to the order of the world.” Premonitions of a Florida Ravaged by Climate Change 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z A costume change — from muted green-gray shorts to brilliant red-gold sequins — signals a shift into a looser, more visceral second half, a kind of unraveling. Review: In ‘Corps,’ Running Aspirational Dance Drills 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Their sensitive compositions and muted emotions sometimes seem almost comforting, as if the pictures depicted a smaller, more manageable tragedy from another time. Critic?s Notebook: 9/11 Exhibitions Rekindle Grief in 3 Ways 2011-09-10T00:00:13Z In Mr. Jones’s rendition, the garish tropical shirts came muted by a veil of organza. American Chic on the Runways of Paris 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Color is muted, creating a dank, gloomy atmosphere that dims the feebly glowing sun. Art in Review: JENNIFER SULLIVAN: ?One-Week Walden? 2010-12-09T23:20:00Z Some are muted, and others are more colorful. Raskin has been sporting a bandanna he got from his rock-and-roll idol 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z On “Dangerous Woman,” though, she’s curiously muted — several of the songs are strong, but they rely on her gifts less. Ariana Grande and Fifth Harmony Are Songbirds With Clipped Wings on New Albums 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z It would also cue audiences to expect an unfinished story at the end of “Dune,” which rockets through a couple of higher-octane climaxes before landing on a somewhat muted denouement. Venice Film Festival: ‘Dune’ Leaves Us With 3 Big Questions 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Expect to encounter stretched canvases painted with acrylics in muted color palettes, works on paper, sculptural pieces and more. 212-831-7272, elmuseo.org. Holiday Museum Guide: Where to See Art This Season 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z He played a muted song from his first mixtape, then walked offstage. Chance the Rapper Honors Chicago, His Hometown, With Magnificent Coloring Day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z But at the V.I.P. preview on Wednesday, the mood was decidedly more muted, the aisles noticeably less crowded. At Art Basel Miami Beach, Fewer Dabblers but Deliberative Sales 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The hum of the Gold Line a few feet away is muted by the growing chatter on his photo show's opening night. Why Oscar Castillo's photos of Chicano life and protest are essential for understanding L.A. 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z But the reaction has been muted in Hawaii, where many slack-key guitarists and traditional musicians had grown disenchanted with the Grammys competition even before their category was eliminated. Grammy Award Cuts Still Face Some Opposition 2011-12-28T23:18:54Z So you can understand the muted celebration in Julia Wolfe’s “Her Story,” an oratorio-like work that originated as a commemoration of the 19th Amendment yet sobers as much as it rouses. Review: An Oratorio Cautiously Looks Back on Women’s Suffrage 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z When Shy Glizzy raps in that muted trumpet of a voice, you get to hear two things at once: emotion leaking out and emotion being withheld. Review | Shy Glizzy is bigger than ever — but he still sounds like D.C. 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Instead of a muted, all-natural palette of wood and stone, Sushi Nakazawa was done in a stark black-and-white, always in style in New York. At Sushi Nakazawa, Only the Price Remains the Same 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The Dardenne brothers married their plainly told social drama shtick with a muted murder mystery in The Unknown Girl, which sailed through thriller checkpoints but refused to provide us with the expected suspense. Sex, ghosts money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Yet there are glimmers of sensuousness in the Touchstone Gallery show, whether in the infrequent bright colors — a gold bar, a red line — or the textures within the muted, monochromatic blocks. Review | In the galleries: ‘Poor art’ is often minimalist, but rich in its impact 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Alongside muted drums and blissful guitar embellishments that resurface every so often, there's something really pure about Jesse's music. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z Most songs are in a major key, and the jazz inflections are muted — the score’s one boogie-woogie number, “The Jitterbug,” was cut during production — but Arlen’s melodies are as intricate as ever. Oz Revisited – Part 4: Where’s That Rainbow? 2013-09-19T14:51:07Z Lounge-y red lights lined the roadway, a muted illumination system installed to protect the turtles. At a South Florida hospital, heroes for the half-shell 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z But her creative accomplishment plays a muted a role in “Akhmatova.” Music: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World 2011-04-05T13:30:06Z “Compared with many of the rest of us, you would find Amish emotion to be more muted,” Dr. Nolte said. How to Feel Nothing Now, in Order to Feel More Later 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, potentially interesting, distinguishing details about Brazilian culture are muted by the director’s commitment to abstraction. ‘My Darling Supermarket’ Review: Cosmic Tales From the Checkout Lane 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z In all kinds of insidious ways, women remain underrepresented in media, and their voices remain muted. Perspective | Canning O’Reilly and other media men won’t change a thing. Here’s what would. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z At one point, I got sick of the exaggerated moaning and muted it. I watched the “Teen Mom” porno 2013-05-07T20:41:00Z The celebratory tone we hear from Ms. Jones at the end of the movie contrasts with the more muted one she sometimes strikes today. Sharon Jones, a Burst of Light, Even in Dark Times 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z A bright opening sees the ensemble in muted flesh tones against columns of austere black. Electric Counterpoint, Asphodel Meadows, Carmen; Dystopian Wonders; Breakin' Convention 2010-05-08T23:07:00Z Ms. Ayubi and Ms. Ebtikar said they planned to go all out with their festivities to honor those whose celebrations will be muted. For Afghans Abroad, Nowruz Is a Chance to Reflect 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Such efforts will register on the broader public's consciousness with the same unremarkable impact as those muted trombone riffs representing the adult voices on every Charlie Brown cartoon. Brace yourself for the Bill Cosby media redemption tour 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Each is tinted a single, slightly muted color, producing a dreamily memorial effect. Art Review: ‘What Is a Photograph?’ Opens at the I.C.P. 2014-01-30T23:57:35Z The coppery burr of muted brasses emerged from the back of the orchestra, as if from a great distance, before a frightening descent into Expressionist madness. Review: The Minnesota Orchestra’s White Light and White Heat 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z But the movie hasn’t been met by the same enthusiasm, either: It’s received muted reviews and an unflashy B+ CinemaScore from audiences. ‘Ocean’s 8’ Is No. 1 at the Box Office 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z A postscript appears onscreen to inform us that Gucci, no longer a dynastic family concern, is now a lucrative global luxury brand, a bit of non-news that arrives as a muted happy ending. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Hence no special effects, no fancy lighting, muted applause and minimal audience shots. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z His stage manner conveyed a muted but stout physicality, perhaps as a byproduct of his experience. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z In “Grey Area,” color is muted when it’s there at all. Art Review: ?Julie Mehretu: Grey Area? at the Guggenheim Museum 2010-05-20T21:50:00Z She wore dark sunglasses and a black dress; her voice was muted, her face drawn. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z In the slow jams the feet are relatively quiet and the body language even quieter, expressing a cool unruffled by the muted explosions below. Dance Review: Savion Glover’s New Show at the Joyce Theater 2013-06-19T20:55:59Z Everything about this account felt just right, including silken, muted strings in the Andante; springy rhythms in the Menuetto; and splendid work from the oboes and French horns throughout. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall 2013-06-03T20:02:26Z This utterly contemporary thread of “Measure for Measure” elicits muted laughs of recognition in the theater, despite the communication gap that the production has inadequately addressed. Review | If Shakespeare in Russian is on your bucket list, here’s your chance to cross it off. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Here it succeeds, yet on Tuesday the impact was muted by the casting. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2013-05-15T20:46:54Z Khao soi, a curry soup, achieves a muted sweetness from a touch of coconut sugar and white onions cooked down until near liquid, then pulverized in a blender and returned to the pan. Thai Dishes That Pave a Chef’s Path Home in Elmhurst, Queens 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z As it happens, the club, with its seedy glamour and its muted sparkle, represents a partial concession to realism. Review: In ‘The Lure,’ Two Mermaids Walk Into a Strip Club (Things Get Weirder) 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The muted reaction among journalists and critics at a press screening in Berlin, however, suggested it may not enjoy the same critical acclaim. Gabourey Sidibe says enough "perfect, pretty" films 2011-02-12T18:55:13Z Which leaves the cast to dispatch mostly muted, distant performances. Review: Tipping the Scales in ‘A Delicate Balance’ 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The pleading in the song is clinical, the chemistry muted. The Playlist: Taylor Swift and the Jesus and Mary Chain Offer Different Shades of Teases 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z In a down-with-the-kids gesture, the lecturer stood behind a TV monitor playing a muted video of Blade Runner. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Ocean has received strong support from other artists, his record label and cultural commentators, while the negative reactions have been largely muted and equivocal. Frank Ocean Draws Praise for Declaring His Homosexuality 2012-07-06T23:47:45Z Such fraught moments of complex emotion — sometimes mundane, sometimes muted — are a refrain throughout the book. Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z There’s this muted way of being that definitely is specific for Sweden. Robyn Wrote a Song About Getting Drunk, Doing Karaoke and Jamming with a Metalhead 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Drawn with a soft, sketchy touch and printed in a variety of muted colors, they are a private counterpoint to the posters’ public address. Toulouse-Lautrec’s Groundbreaking Prints at MoMA 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z While interest in their third child has been more muted, large numbers of photographers and broadcasters massed outside the hospital, along with some dedicated royal fans. It's a boy: Kate, wife of UK's Prince William, gives birth to third... 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Special commendation goes to the always polished solos from the muted trumpets, the groans of the contraforte and other low reeds, and the sickening chromatic slides of the trombones. Andrew Litton, conducting NSO, does justice to Russian program 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z This “smart and accomplished” debut collection, as our reviewer, Kirstin Valdez Quade, commented, focuses on women with muted desires, standing at a distance from their own stories as they navigate the uncertainty of early adulthood. New in Paperback: ‘Let the Record Show’ and ‘Hell of a Book’ 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Well sung and carefully considered, her final scene was muted, settled at the same low emotional temperature as most of her performance. Music Review: ?Anna Bolena? ? Review 2011-10-23T23:41:09Z In this exhibition, most paintings are dominated by muted, aggregate shades of clay, green-gold, mustard or salmon. Against the Grain: Rebecca Morris and Peter Bradley’s Art ‘About Nothing’ 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z As a dutiful student, she was self-conscious about her muted fervency: Faced with such horrors as My Lai, how much resistance is enough? Review | A novel that’s a lot like life: Jumbled and challenging and wonderfully real 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Yet the understated Englishness of the score tends to leave an oddly muted impression, especially for audiences unfamiliar with the source. Review | André Watts is star attraction at Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z He is 70 now, of course, and perhaps time has muted the bravado and the innuendo, the hair dye and the tan, perhaps he has realised he has little left to prove. Tom Jones: 'Spiritual songs are natural to me' 2010-07-01T20:30:00Z “It’s Valium clothes,” Michael said of Olivier’s boring, drapey, muted dress. On the Runway Blog: Project Runway Season 9: Avant-Garde or Hot Mess? 2011-09-02T16:54:54Z Music is muted — the grisly snap of bones and squelch of peeling flesh predominate — while the camera maintains a cool, observational stillness. Review: ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’ Raises Mighty Goose Bumps 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z In contrast at our architectural practice – the one case study where we did not find a class ceiling – behavioural codes were noticeably muted. The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Harsh lighting fractured their bodies into abstract planes of muted color, which Mr. Pearlstein allowed to be cropped ruthlessly by the canvas edge. Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z The admirably muted qualities of Rose Maxson’s personality are capably revealed; it’s that vital releasing of her equilibrium, and the venting of her anguish, that we don’t experience. Revealing the holes in August Wilson’s ‘Fences’ 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z For even the most established musician, writing music for the big screen evoked a muted terror. Subversive and Smart Scores Raise the Volume in Oscar Talk 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z The soaring lobby has been redone in more muted colors. Why would you make a hotel less trendy? Behold, the Hotel Washington. 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z The 49 rooms are done in minimalist style with smooth woods and muted tones. 36 Hours in Marseille 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Competition was similarly muted for Andy Warhol’s rare large-scale 1986 “Fright Wig” self-portrait, which sold to a single bid from its guarantor, as has increasingly become the case with high-value lots. London Modern and Contemporary Auctions: A Market Minus the Froth 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Most of the audience members were knitting and communicating their enthusiasm with muted thumps. A Knitting Weekend Escape at Mohonk Mountain House 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The wheel and most of the other surfaces of the structure are covered with lowbrow imagery and bumper-sticker-like signs carved in low relief and painted in muted colors. Review: Faile Mines the Dark Depths of Modern Youth With Two Exhibitions 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Barrie’s tale feels rushed and the emotions muted amid the projections, flying, acrobatics and swordplay. ‘Peter Pan’ flies high in panoramic performance at Tysons Corner Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Young continues to emulate the plainness of early 20th-century American realism, while imbuing its muted colors and everyday subjects with the luminosity of the great Dutch painters of 300 years earlier. Review | In the galleries: Studies in ‘anti-landscapes’ and seeing the unseen 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Some behaviors are being amplified, but others may be muted. The Facebook Breakup 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z A small, bird’s-eye view of gardens at the in greens, grays and browns by Monet from 1867 contributes a nicely muted note to the display of otherwise mostly sunny paintings. Art Review: Scavenger Hunt at Met, Courtesy of Oberlin College 2010-04-22T22:36:00Z The setting: A narrow, casually romantic room with dark walls, muted lighting, small tables, a stamped tin ceiling and a compact bar. Comfort food aplenty at Americana on Capitol Hill 2012-03-01T20:47:03Z Gervais asked Gibson a question that was entirely muted, which was either poor or perfect planning for a host whose aired material wasn’t prime-time worthy; he otherwise left the guy basically alone. Review: Ricky Gervais Presides Over a Dire Golden Globes Ceremony 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z But Thursday’s show, although muted in the dusky backgrounds of its floral dresses, was lush with velvet and softened with fur or lace. Special Report: Ralph Lauren's Downtown Boho 2010-02-18T17:42:00Z The crucial factor was Mr. Blade, a more muted and slippery drummer than Mr. Corea usually employs. Music Review: A Musical Home With Three Sides 2010-10-01T23:02:00Z Indeed, while the overall climate felt more muted than it was last spring at Art Basel in Switzerland, important works were still changing hands. At Frieze Art Fairs, No Frenzy but a Sense of Steady Activity 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The architect Le Corbusier is here shown in flat tapestry form, the nonfigurative silhouettes from his painting “Les Musiciennes” hanging alongside the painter Charles Le Brun’s muted landscape, created almost three centuries earlier. In Transit Blog: In Paris, Pictures at an Airport Exhibition 2014-03-21T19:54:25Z Boxy shapes and block-work patterns in muted greys, blacks and berry found their way into swinging three-quarter length coats and knit dresses above the knee. Subdued elegance with ruffles and fringe at Chanel in Paris 2012-07-03T16:54:52Z But increasingly her choices have become notably muted. How Hillary Clinton Ended the Clothing Conversation 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Pale, wide-plank parquet floors and muted, lush linens and natural fabrics are features of each room. In Provence, a Former Palace Exudes Luxury and Privilege 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But the top note here is gore, the more so because most other notes are muted. Review: In a New ‘Macbeth,’ Something Wonky This Way Comes 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z A 10-minute walk brings you to Arran Street East, a small corner studio, cafe and shop that makes its own beautifully glazed range of small cups, pitchers and plant pots, all in muted primary colors. 36 Hours in Dublin 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Its exit may be muted, but the road it helped pave is increasingly traveled. "Fresh Off the Boat" didn't transform the sitcom as we know it, but that's why it mattered 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z On a sunny Monday, he sat at a blistered wooden table as muted house music blooped. A Makeshift Bar on a Dusty Brooklyn Patch 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z But then they developed an exaggeration of the many little ticks, foibles and palilalia – the repetition of phrases – that had afflicted them in a muted way during this long-term torporous state. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z His dances tend to be cool, almost formal exercises in shape and pattern, leavened by understated encounters between dancers that suggest muted emotional currents surging between them. Dance Review: At Danspace Project, GeraldCaselDance Creates a World 2010-04-23T22:23:00Z Throughout, Don Carlo’s advocacy on behalf of the oppressed Flemish also came across as muted without the first act’s sketching of diplomatic intrigue between France and Spain. Review: The Met Brings Back a Shorter, Weaker ‘Don Carlo’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The coronavirus pandemic had hushed its observance: Festivities were muted, carnivals canceled. Review | Anna Solomon’s ‘Book of V’ will please fans of ‘The Hours’ with its sprawling take on a biblical tale 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Perfectly pitched and rhythmically coiled around a muted or modest paradox – spring, conventionally the harbinger of hope, brings only criticism of a personal sort. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z Further muted by the glass, she whirled her arms in a way that was half cool dance move, half SOS. ‘Light and Desire’ Review: Express Yourself, if You Can 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The sound was melancholic, the visuals muted, but the combination never descriptive or poetic. A Posthumous Solo Album Reveals a Jazz Star’s Melancholy 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The palate tends to be muted, unless it’s a brisk pop of lacquer red, or perhaps an ovoid of “school soap” to place on a silver spindle. The Robust Preciousness of Labour and Wait 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z A double-sided shawl — moss green on one side and muted rust on the other — costs 1,500 euros. | India in Paris 2012-01-23T23:25:27Z Loss also lyrically haunted one of the standout moments of the show, a muted but devastating version of Ms. Harris’s “Red Dirt Girl.” Americanafest NYC at Damrosch Park Bandshell 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z If you remember the fevered fury of “The Woman Upstairs,” you’ll be surprised by the muted, reflective voice of “The Burning Girl.” Review | Sex and the teenage boy 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The work also received a mixed reception from Australians, some of whom considered it too muted and too sparse in detail. John Olsen, Who Helped Revolutionize Australian Art, Dies at 95 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z For example, the hipster bars on the Lower East Side prefer “natural fabrics, lots of skinny denim on boys and girls, a lot of draping fabrics and muted colors.” Dress Codes in New York Clubs: Will This Get Me In? 2011-07-27T22:50:15Z By contrast, reaction to Wednesday's announcement was muted in the exhibition industry. Paramount to test shorter theatrical window with AMC, Cineplex deal 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z While Mr. Khemiri described his own exposure to anti-immigrant sentiments as fairly muted, he learned the subtle but corrosive role that language could play. Jonas Hassen Khemiri, the Playwright Behind ?Invasion!? 2011-09-09T07:30:35Z The bed, dressed in 400-thread count Sferra linens, was uncommonly comfortable, while the room’s color scheme — white, gray, tan and dusty blue — was muted and relaxing. Hotel Review: The Thompson in Chicago 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z As they don't, the noise is more muted: a smile, a shrug – even a meh. London film festival: what price premieres? 2010-09-08T13:22:00Z My floor was rowdier on the second night, but my cabin muted the hooting and hollering. On a Baltic Sea cruise, board in Sweden and wake up in Latvia — then do it in reverse 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z The books have simple stories and enchanting illustrations by Vincent that are characterized by graceful lines, muted colors and blurred edges. Movie Listings for May 2-8 2014-05-01T21:50:50Z The muted clap of a fist to a face and the subsequent crack of head to asphalt rang out. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Well, he looked pretty much as he always does -- swapping one muted outfit for another. 'The Voice' recap: A blind-battle mash-up 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Its showdowns take place not on Hamptons estates or at motorcycle races but in sterile boardrooms, where lives and careers are upended in muted conversation. Arts & Leisure: ?Margin Call,? From J. C. Chandor, Looks at Wall Street 2011-10-12T11:01:11Z On a normal day, house empty or not, the TV would’ve been running with the sound muted and screen flickering. The “I Do” of Addiction 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Since then, coverage of the protests has been noticeably muted in the pages of the Post-Gazette. The standoff between owners and journalists that’s eviscerating Pittsburgh’s biggest newspaper 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Next to a slender Santa in muted, earthy tones and wispy, ragged facial hair stands a plump Santa sporting a manicured beard and cherry-red coat. Embracing my family's quirky holiday traditions from far away 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z At its best, it has something of the muted optimism of late Shakespeare, though there are also moments when it threatens to mutate into glib new age group therapy. The Fairy Queen ? review 2011-02-14T22:15:00Z It's a wonderfully muted performance from Pacino: Dustin Hoffman would have cranked it up far higher. Scarecrow – review 2013-04-25T20:50:02Z His playing on “Lack the Faith but Not the Wine,” a ballad, conveys a heartache directly proportional to its muted calm. Review: Joshua Redman Joins the Bad Plus in a Chemistry Experiment 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z These days she’s more muted, a natural consequence of getting older, she said, “and figuring out what’s cool, how to be, how to comfort and temper yourself.” Mamie Gummer Wants to Make a Name for Herself 2012-10-05T20:45:19Z Such contrasts are muted in Ken Bachman’s moody depiction of a gray barn in a snowy setting. In the galleries: Small universes and a large cosmos at Greater Reston Arts Center 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The climax feels rushed and muted, the resolution a little pat. ‘Mostly Dead Things,’ a Story of Taxidermy, Love and Grief, With Echoes of Past Literary Heroines 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Their muted meet-cute, with him rude and her vindictive, is an argument that flows into something transformational, blurring their established lines and ours. ‘Copenhagen,’ a Debut by the Writer-Director Mark Raso 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The light casts a muted glow on the wall behind her, which has been painted a color called "tarnished silver" in anticipation of her arrival. At Norton Simon, a delicate 'Tete-a-Tete' with Whistler, other masters 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The feeling this year is more muted, to put it mildly. With a low-key opening night film, the Cannes Film Festival gets off to a subdued — but promising — start. Harvey is a British novelist who has published four novels to critical acclaim but muted sales, and was well on her way to the uncoveted status of writer’s writer when in mid-2016, disaster struck. Review | Samantha Harvey’s ‘The Shapeless Unease’ delves into the quotidian torture of insomnia 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z She opened her show on Sunday afternoon with a sage-colored knit suit in cotton and wool, worn with a muted pullover and sandals lined in creamy fleece. On the Runway Blog: Dudes and Other Distractions in Milan 2014-01-13T18:15:32Z As a New Yorker, Harris also understood David Fincher’s muted aesthetic — no bright light, no primary colors. Who wears the pants? Claire Underwood, Hillary Clinton and the fiction of being a fashionable first lady 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z But her ambivalent narration has been muted; instead, we hear the lofty strings of Britell’s song “Eros,” which is the sound of soul mates merging. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z So when Ms. Poehler and Ms. Fey joked that the awards show honored “all the movies that North Korea was O.K. with,” the laughter was muted. At Golden Globes, Comedy, Charlie Hebdo and Cosby 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The muted underwater atmosphere of the piece is derived from a legend about a sailor trying to listen in to an island temple that had sunk below the ocean. This week's new exhibitions 2012-05-25T23:05:24Z The supernatural elements are quite atmospheric, with flesh being ripped, and yet, the horror feels muted. "You Won't Be Alone" is a sensual and gory shapeshifting film that pushes back at society 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z In the last minutes Mr. Bashmet played with a mute but sounded the opposite of muted, producing his most vivid, focused sound of the evening. Music Review: A Viola and a Piano in Search of Common Ground 2011-05-01T21:13:51Z He was a fuzzy, muted green, with an enormous round belly and long, skinny arms that reached down to his feet. How a Teeny-Weeny Chef Became a Great Big Star 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z But impatient consumers have spurned them for more muted, muddy and colorful alternatives, preferring anything pink or, better yet, red, to the white Duncan. The Death and Rebirth of the Duncan Grapefruit 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Color tends to a muted opalescence, but in “Moving,” in which she appears three times at about life size, dancing across a five-foot-wide canvas, an intense yellow glow suffuses and heats the image. Art in Review: Joan Semmel 2011-05-06T06:15:06Z The rest of the face was kept bare and muted to keep the focus on the colorful, eye-catching looks. | Bold Lines at Dries Van Noten 2014-02-26T22:30:18Z In others, characters are static and muted, wading through the silence. Review: A ‘Crucible’ for the Modern Mob 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The film did a muted $6.6 million worth of business, and appealed primarily to older audiences, with 97 percent of its opening weekend crowd clocking in over the age of 25. Box Office: 'Sausage Party' scores with $33.6 million, 'Suicide Squad' plunges in second weekend 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z At its most affecting, it’s a memoir of Ms. Washington’s parents’ perseverance and muted pain in a culture warped by racism. Review: In ‘Feeding the Dragon,’ an Enchanted Home Inside a Library 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Junya Watanabe’s muted floral laces, made for him in Japan and shown as loose dresses over black undergarments, were a cool answer to prints. Fashion Review: C?line, Comme des Gar?ons, Haider Ackermann, Junya Watanabe, Jean Paul Gaultier and Yohji Yamamoto: Paris Review 2011-10-03T03:10:16Z When an unfamiliar actor steps into the light as Hamilton, the applause that greets him is scattered, more muted, as audience members rustle their Playbills for the overlooked white slip. The Thrilling Uncertainty of the Understudy 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z But he should be prepared for muted, if any, applause in whatever dining rooms he eventually holds court. Perspective | As Trump looks to expand his D.C. dining outlook, a few recommendations 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Locally, the celebration of the broken barrier was somewhat more muted. Houston’s Annise Parker, a gay mayor in a red state, ponders political future 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Her work is a balance on the edge of abstraction and reality and her predominating colors are muted. Oils that are different, yet complementary, at Prographica 2014-04-03T20:49:48Z His fans would say he's always been like this, the rancor of recent times muted that charm. Live from their homes: Late night hosts are back to show we're all in this together 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z Still, we had hope then, a muted vision of ourselves once again in an Italian wine bar or even a coffee shop downtown without a miniature mouth suctioned to my nipple. What he said before he died 2013-01-29T01:00:00Z I also like the regular muted chortles, and the moments at which it's obvious that Bragg considers a guest either a particular genius or twerp. In Our Time: Radio 4's best programme? 2011-03-08T11:02:14Z You may begin by scoffing and then find yourself reading all the way to the end with real, if muted, pleasure. Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Kitano's immaculate compositions and eccentric flourishes are part of the film's sustained, muted pleasures. 'Outrage': a gangland war, yakuza style 2011-12-15T20:59:10Z Greene worked this deficit to his advantage, making photographs that are painterly in their muted shadings. Much About This Artist Is in Doubt. Not His Talent. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Even though I prefer tartness, I found myself magnetically attracted to the more muted tang of the Bulgarian yogurt. DIY yogurt beats the store-bought stuff A painting of a chef’s coat in muted, earthy tones turns out to be a memento of her days at Gourmet; it hung in the executive dining room there. Sara Moulton, still cooking and teaching — with a smile 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The response to the re-release of "Deep Throat" was so muted that very few people probably even know that 2022 is the 50th anniversary of the film's initial release. Why the re-release of iconic porn film "Deep Throat" fizzled 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The suspense is muted, but it's a gripping book. Crime fiction: lingering shadows of World War II in three new suspense novels 2011-04-06T23:05:04Z I felt the urge to scream and momentarily muted my phone. Perspective | My life was upended for 35 years by a cancer diagnosis. A doctor just told me I was misdiagnosed. 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z But it is impressive for all that; though it does raise serious issues about the way an artist's intentions, and work itself, can be misrepresented – or in this case muted. Artist Bruce Nauman's carnage-littered carousel will blow your mind 2013-01-30T18:12:43Z Are we really so weak and scared that any opinion that differs from the consensus must be muted, lest it provoke death threats against not only those voicing it, but their children as well? Israel’s Other War 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z “But what I really liked about it was that they muted the sensational aspects of the end and lean into the inspiring beginnings.” ‘Belushi’ Finds the Sensitive Man Inside the Wild Persona 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z Head said that "unless there is a story reason for a colour, we keep the colours muted." Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z Sophie Theallet offered more knits and sportswear this season, in bohemian patterns and muted jewel tones, and perhaps not enough of her distinctive femininity. Fashion Review: Rodarte, Oscar de la Renta, Michael Kors, Sophie Theallet, Narciso Rodriguez ? Review 2012-02-15T23:59:49Z When many people think of fruit on pizza, one particular image likely comes to mind: slices of pie speckled with briny, muted cubed ham, black olive slivers and canned pineapple chunks. Pineapple haters are wrong: You should eat even more fruit on your pizza 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Amid the whirl of musical colours from these five operas, his wistful "I'm coming home" twinned with a poignant, muted trumpet solo sticks in the mind. NI Opera Shorts – review 2012-07-07T23:05:46Z Green parsley and red chile flake lend occasional shocks of color to this otherwise muted, luscious composition. To fully appreciate the potential of canned clams, pair them with briny, bright red sauce 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The Valley of Love, which premiered at Cannes in 2015 and which enjoyed a muted release this summer, ought not, even on paper, to be a movie that met with shrugs. The best films of 2016 ... that you probably didn't see 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Feld Entertainment’s shows ignore Aristotelian dramatic rules; they jump from happy event to happy event, the villains muted, the conflicts less overcome than ignored. Ring Leaders: Meet the Women Behind Disney's Ice Empire 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z While Khalili describes the action in muted movie trailers from the perspective of someone who is hilariously ignorant about Hollywood, comedians compete against Malley to identify the films relying solely on Khalili’s verbal depictions. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z But much more than that, she has always brought to her work an earthy vulnerability and muted intensity that makes her work special. Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z She and Rafael both continue their muted conference calls for seven minutes as they search for their child. Can Women Have It All? Not in Silicon Valley 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z I am all for the monuments to slavery coming down, but when the protests eventually subside and the hashtag activism is muted, we must continue to take meaningful steps to make a difference. White allies, stop asking me if I'm OK. Black people are not OK 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The decision to close the shipyard is made at the very start, and the confrontation between management and labor is muted and pretty much forgotten midway through. Sting's "The Last Ship" Needs A Stronger Rudder on Broadway 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Next to it, “Coast-to-Coast” feels flatter, muted, less committed as he focuses on weather disasters. Fifteen years after 9/11, we can hear the only bit George Carlin ever cut for taste 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z All lyricism is muted, all tangents are curtailed, and the potential for satire — especially in Oates’s portrait of Marus Mudrick — is never developed. Book review: ‘The Sacrifice,’ by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by Tawana Brawley case 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z They consist of muted photographs of entangled, youthful, nude bodies printed on plywood panels, which have been cut into triangular sections, reassembled with hinges and displayed as folded constructions. Art in Review: MATTHEW STONE: ?Optimism as Cultural Rebellion? 2011-11-10T22:56:06Z Celebrations of beloved series' finales were relatively muted this year, but we said goodbye to some big ones: "Supernatural" ended its decade-and-a-half run. Wait, that happened this year? A reminder of the TV events that 2020 erased from our memories 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z The ambience here suggests the immaculate interiors of the TV versions, but in shades more muted and accouterments more nondescript. Trekkies, Set Phasers to Fun for a Trip to Starfleet Academy 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z And when she tried to address the controversy in a public hearing with the commission last month, she was abruptly muted toward the end of her speech and refused extra time. San Francisco Apologizes to Artist Over Maya Angelou Monument 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Her emotions are muted in a way that is intriguing rather than off-putting. Mrs. King and Coretta: A Posthumous Memoir Explores Public and Private Selves 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z They mixed shirting stripes with muted prints — those promised “unprints” — adding texture and interest with crisp white popover tops. | Fashion Review: Women?s Wear - NY Fashion Week - Review 2011-09-11T21:55:13Z Lamar’s act appeared to suffer from technical difficulties that muted periods of his performance, leading fans on social media to express their frustration. Dua Lipa, Stormzy take top honors at BRIT awards 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z But because they skipped the initial round of seasoning enjoyed by most other test batches — the jaunt in a tub of salty water — they had a much more muted flavor, despite McGee's note. The absolute best — and worst — way to mash potatoes, according to so many tests 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z I could see the muted terror in their eyes when they'd come to visit, appraising my pallid, sweating face and withered body. Motherlode Blog: When Old Friends Meet the New Baby 2013-01-18T18:05:52Z Mace is the skin found around a nutmeg seed, just slightly muted in flavor and without nutmeg's subtle sweetness. The 4 best substitutes for ginger 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z On Super Bowl Sunday, while millions of Americans were watching the big game, the family hardly glanced at the muted TV in the waiting room. Bobbi Kristina Brown's Family Keep Bedside Vigil 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Omrit reminded me of the rugged, chromatically muted uplands where the Anasazi built their stone cities in the American Southwest. Herod the Great’s Israel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Because the resolution on your spouse becomes clearer and clearer by the year, you must find compensatory ways to blur and pixelate them back into a soft, muted, faintly fantastical fog. Marriage Requires Amnesia 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z All the while, two rows of smooth, eroded mountain peaks enclosed me in an amphitheater of muted colors: hazel-hued heather, golden grasses. In Britain, Enraptured by the Wild, Lonely and Remote 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z But he throws this delicate, intelligent film, which at its best suggests a muted hybrid of “The Visitor” and “It’s a Wonderful Life,” off balance. 2010-01-08T03:45:00Z Plans for same-sex marriage celebrations tied to documentaries like “The Case Against 8” were muted following Utah’s decision to fight a court ruling legalizing gay marriage in the state. The Carpetbagger: Sundance: A Dark Mood Pervades This Edition 2014-01-24T16:50:57Z It might be muted a little in this campaign because I think that many people are going to vote for the candidates’ politics and not for a candidate who represents their faith. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z Ten years ago, the Color Marketing Group expected confident blues to dominate the next decade, but muted neutrals took over after the trauma of Sept. Design: Palette of Optimism: Shades of Honey Moon 2011-01-16T19:30:02Z The decor at the recently renovated St. Moritz Youth Hostel is minimalist hip, with sleek cement floors, huge windows and muted tones. Finding real summer deals in the deluxe Swiss ski resort of St. Moritz 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Anna Calvi, the impressively twiddling guitarist with an equally impressive set of lungs, struggled with tinny, muted vocals and guitar, though she stormed through debut single Jezebel regardless, and Desire even prompted a singalong. Field Day ? review 2011-08-09T10:53:42Z First, it has to dispatch with the standard preliminaries, including Aretha’s childhood, with its crackling tensions and cautiously muted torments. ‘Respect’ Review: Giving a Queen Her Propers 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Some other longish skirts and shortish jackets in muted shades of taupe or pink were finished with what appeared to be elastic, creating a nice bunch-y effect. On the Runway: Resort Looks from C?line and Nina Ricci 2011-06-14T23:08:52Z Her style becomes elevated in a muted, mature way. "Priscilla" highlights how Elvis molded Priscilla into a mirror of himself 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z With its muted, desolate landscapes, “The Rock From the Sky” is hilariously dark, especially about social relations. Jon Klassen Meets Samuel Beckett in a Hilariously Dark Picture Book 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Almost everyone lives in an impersonal home seemingly decorated by the same depressed interior designer, with muted colors and generic furnishings that turn each dwelling into a showroom. ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Review: The Evil That Men Do (Repeatedly) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z “So in her designs, she borrowed the ease, comfort and muted palette of men’s clothes to create a style of pared-down elegance for women that liberated them from furbelows and froufrou confections.” Op-Ed Columnist: It Goes With Everything, Even Bad Hair 2012-10-01T03:01:10Z His interest in our passive acceptance of endless foreign war, bloody myths and social class divide is only occasionally betrayed by muted horror. Review | A Basque author contemplates a complex city in ‘Nevada Days’ 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z A touch muted, with rich texture and smoky flavors of herbs and citrus. For Muscadet, Look Beyond the Obvious 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Jacques Tati’s 1967 film Playtime may elicit muted guffaws, raised eyebrows, jaws dropped in amazement – but belly laughs? Jacques Tati’s Playtime: life-affirming comedy 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z There are muted grayish yellow tones in there. Mom’s a Corpse. Dad Looks Mad. At Least the Light Is Nice. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Inevitably the conflicts that fuel the play — between Macbeth and his foes, Macbeth and his wife, Macbeth and the brutal fate his actions have brought about — feel muted by the one-man, many-voices concept. Theater Review: Alan Cumming in ‘Macbeth’ at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-08T20:59:33Z While Mr. Haywood was mild and muted throughout his performance, Mr. Wosner was sparkling in the second-movement Andante variations, and he and Ms. Koh brought outdoor spaciousness to the final Presto romp. Review: For Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer,’ a Chance to Compare and Contrast 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z It's hard to think of another recent project in Southern California where the forms are so forward and the material and color palette so muted. Compelling case for gray at Pomona College's Studio Art Hall 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Then, three songs into a lengthy set at the Paramount, one muted spotlight lit him, yet with fewer lumens than a car headlight. Seattle’s prodigal band returns; Fleet Foxes puts on stellar show 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The period details are relatively muted, aside from a soundtrack that features Pat Benatar, Juice Newton and the requisite “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins. ‘The Americans’ With Keri Russell as a K.G.B. Agent 2013-01-24T17:00:00Z The straight-edged geometries and muted colors of “Fragment” and “Cathedral” are less exciting than more colorful works. Devin Powers’s Paintings at Lesley Heller Workspace 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The mood was muted late Saturday afternoon at Ulterior Gallery, a narrow storefront space on the Lower East Side. It Was Their Big Debut. Then a Pandemic Hit. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z None was a critical hit, although a muted reception in Cannes need not dent their box office prospects. Cannes film festival hits halfway short on buzz 2010-05-17T09:37:00Z She wore muted corduroy and canvas clothes and a calm smile beneath an alert frizz of hair. A Mesmerizing Marathon of Robert Frank’s Movies 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z You can't exactly accuse the man of underambition, though there are the odd flashes of humour: "the clamour for the lion's reintroduction to Britain has, so far, been muted". The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare; Feral by George Monbiot – review 2013-06-03T07:00:04Z The sunlight over Los Angeles looks unusually gray and muted throughout “The Way Back,” set largely in the isolated coastal neighborhood of San Pedro, where, in the late 1920s, homes toppled into the ocean. ‘The Way Back’ Review: Seeking Redemption on the Basketball Court 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z But Mr. Marsalis also showed orchestral ambitions, arranging more than a few passages for a piquant blend of flutes and muted horns, and favoring striking harmonic sequences, like a Thelonious Monkish stretch of “Leap Frogs.” Review: Wynton Marsalis’s ‘Spaces,’ a Kinetic Series of Zoological Portraits 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Schubert revels in tone color, this piece in particular, and in Dinnerstein’s hands an astonishing richness of opulence, brilliance, muted hues and quiet clarity spoke eloquently and moved inevitably in an intense and moving performance. Simone Dinnerstein gives intense, moving performance at Wolf Trap Barns His show, one of the most anticipated during New York Fashion Week, was held on Wednesday in a muted Park Avenue Armory, where models strutted down the minimalist runway in silence. Marc Jacobs closes New York Fashion Week echoing Arabian Nights 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The fracking boom muted more imaginative approaches to the common welfare, and suppressed honest appraisals of costs. What Happened When Fracking Came to Town 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The impressionist lucidity of Ms. Schneider’s big-band scores was muted, understandably; still, her characteristic melodic generosity and rhythmic ingenuity came through. Music Review: A Quartet Mixes It Up With Younger Voices 2010-10-11T22:00:00Z It is not the vehicles that they drive or the things strapped on the roof, but the univocal shade of muted grey. Burning Man on its last legs 2012-10-14T14:00:00Z The elements of fantasy exist here but are deftly muted, as Mr. Martin defies genre conventions. Books of The Times: In a Fantasyland of Liars, Keep Your Dragon Close 2011-07-14T17:28:37Z Each started with muted tones of lighting and costuming, then built up in ever more flamboyant colors toward a jubilant close. Review: Brazilian dance troupe Grupo Corpo brings bright, buoyant fare to Seattle 2011-02-04T18:09:04Z Yet even with that provenance, the Thursday evening sale at Christie’s that kicked off the spring 2023 auction season was muted. The S.I. Newhouse Auction: 16 Paintings, $177.8 Million 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z The startling violence of his “Così” in New York has been muted in Los Angeles. Dudamel Leads Mozart’s Opera With a Zaha Hadid Set 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z The new movie hasn’t killed “West Side Story,” but it has muted it considerably — and packed it full of starts and stops. What Is ‘West Side Story’ Without Jerome Robbins? Chatty. 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Struggling to connect the filaments of past and present, youth and maturity, Dolan seems lost, his signature vivaciousness and sense of fun almost entirely muted. ‘The Death & Life of John F. Donovan’ Review: A Child Is Torn 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s all New York, of course, both the manic and the muted; the city thrives on opposition. The High Line, by Day and Night - NYC 2011-08-26T21:49:05Z Cellos, muted fighting, Jon Snow gasping for air in the teeming mass. “Game of Thrones”: Bastards! 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z With the character, we definitely take what, for me, probably in real life have been moments where it's a bit more muted than what we do in the show. "Doubt is healthy": "Ramy" will make you question everything about monogamy and spirituality 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The tone of muted control that’s sustained throughout the piece is an extraordinary feat. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z After that, the soundtrack is briefly muted again when Hogarth shocks both Kilgrave and Jones. ‘Jessica Jones’ Episode 9: Locked Room Mystery 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z The "Jupiter", No 41, dense with musical argument, alert with vivid effect as in the muted strings of the slow movement, explodes into contrapuntal brilliance. OAE/Rattle; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Manze; A Midsummer Night's Dream – review 2013-02-03T00:05:56Z The Woman Upstairs is both quieter and braver; it roars in its own muted way, and dares to pin down things that are both excruciating and universal. The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review 2013-05-17T09:00:02Z Rain misted down and clouds hung heavily above us as my husband and I plopped into our orange kayaks, the only bright colors in a landscape of muted grays and greens. This secluded state park on the Chesapeake Bay offers an alternative to summer’s crowds 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The large rooftop bar, an airy rectangle of muted tones, glass and steel, leaves most ambience to the altitude. 7 Party Hot Spots Opening in New York This Fall 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The works stop short of photo-realism and adhere instead to a sort of photo-resonance, compositionally indebted to the snapshot's nonhierarchical aesthetic, yet subtly painterly, their surfaces muted but alive. What to see in L.A. galleries: Hot-button greeting cards, mesmerizing photograms 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z At the rehearsal, Mr. Franco had been muted in performance as his character tried to take stock of his new circumstances while also explaining his exasperated, protective relationship with Lennie. James Franco and Chris O’Dowd on Their Rapport in ‘Of Mice and Men’ 2014-03-19T12:00:02Z The museum aspect — the public display of artifacts and interpretations — is more muted. Exhibition Review: Magnes Judaica Museum Joins Berkeley Library - Review 2012-01-22T23:04:04Z Given his taste for the miniature, for his Japanese garden and rows of dwarf trees, Ravel's muted enthusiasm for Wagner, the sprawler to beat all sprawlers, is hardly a surprise. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z And there’s the muted glow of the viola’s timbre, its range comfortably tracking a human voice. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z It’s subtle and dreamy, drifting in a wash of electronic keyboards and muted percussion. Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z His show, one of the most anticipated during New York Fashion Week, was held on Wednesday in a muted Park Avenue Armory, where models strutted down the minimalist runway in silence. Marc Jacobs closes New York Fashion Week echoing Arabian Nights 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Rendered on wood panels, the near-sculptural pictures employ mostly muted hues, with the occasional vivid contrast. Review | In the galleries: Digital and traditional media join forces 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z But Oliver’s line was also a muted challenge—one that left my own fluency in international politics feeling mighty exposed. John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Digitally created artwork evokes a snowy atmosphere, and muted colors elicit a coziness. Perspective | 10 great holiday-season books to enjoy with your little ones 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z It will contain 294 rooms, several within turrets, and all with muted color schemes and spacious marble bathrooms. Openings: Miami to Jaipur: New Rooms That Stand Out 2011-01-12T20:09:48Z Curiously, even this took place in a muted atmosphere. A Dreary Sense of Duty Reigns at Auctions 2010-07-02T16:30:00Z Breathing in, he crossed the lawn with muted footsteps. The day he thought he could fly: How my father broke our family’s silence on schizophrenia 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Danes and Hiddleston both appear drained, muted as the landscape, the chemistry between them less believable than the Loch Ness Monster. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z For most of the 20th century, however, these celebrations were muted by wars, revolution and the grim imperatives of the Soviet state. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z The novelty of the scale and ambition of the project has dissipated, and for the most part enthusiasm is muted. The Hobbit promises more gold for New Zealand 2012-10-13T19:08:15Z It was a bit disappointing that the political content of the show was so muted. Wrongbestfilmgate was a moment of pure chaos – my night of shocks at the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The siblings’ time in Passion Food kitchens hasn’t muted their affection for the scorpion pinch of the chili pepper. El Sol review: The best taqueria in Washington by a long shot 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z From the haunting muted introduction to Weber’s “Oberon” overture onward, you noticed sensitive gradations of string sound again and again. Music Review: New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-12-06T21:56:27Z And, lest the muted greys in the collection be viewed as tame by his younger fans, the designer injected a jolt of high-class va va voom in a show-stopping silver satin gown. Subdued elegance with ruffles and fringe at Chanel in Paris 2012-07-03T16:54:52Z But we do witness a hundred muted shades of glum and listless: Furuholmen still seems sad about abandoning guitar for keyboards, decades ago, while Harket talks about needing his space. ‘a-ha: The Movie’ Review: The Creative Purgatory of the ‘Take on Me’ Trio 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Interestingly, Dark Horse is a Solondz film that is slightly different from his other movies: a little more muted, a little less alienated, a little more sympathetic. Dark Horse – review 2012-06-28T20:30:01Z Our superior king room was nicely decorated in muted slate and dark, lacquered wood with accents of hot pink and lime green. Check In/Check Out : Hotel Review: Gansevoort Park Avenue NYC 2011-07-01T17:00:00Z This resulted in reduced year-on-year totals at Christie’s and Sotheby’s evening contemporary auctions in New York and London, and more muted demand at the world’s leading art fairs. Trump and the Art Market: A Feel-Good Factor? 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z He agrees it's not a bad description of his own muted acting style, but reflecting on his work seems to frustrate him. Guy Pearce: Don't look down 2010-12-04T00:02:00Z Roney's dramatically spiralling runs, wistful muted tones and telling pauses represent soulful empathy, not mimicry. Music picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z In “Nowhere Land” and “Helter Smelter,” the sound gradually built as the strings sustained chords over muted piano notes. Music Review: Classical-Pop Border, No Guards in Sight 2011-01-20T22:49:21Z The measured pace and Mr. Shirai’s muted, austere visuals capably render the devotion of the employees and owners to a century-old tradition of craftsmanship despite the uncertain future of their business. Tribeca Film Festival: Documentaries Offer a Niche-Pleasing Lineup 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Stylishly somber, "Maggie" has just enough grit and decay to make the most of its muted colors. 'Maggie' has the zombie look but a deadly slow pace Its poster, full of muted blues and haunted expressions, further cements that suggestion. Why Manchester By the Sea should win the best picture Oscar 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The museum floors are a partnership with the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and showcase contemporary First Nations art, flanked by custom-designed hemlock and cedar furniture and muted forest colours. Top 10 hotels in Vancouver 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z A few months ago Smith's announced casting was met with a relatively muted backlash, but probably because the vilest trolls are busy plotting the overthrow of democracy. Bet your bottom dollar that NBC's "Annie Live!" will usher in a new inclusive era for an old classic 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The collection was actually more contemporary than that might sound, with loose frock coats, muted floral jacquard shorts, and cool, extra-long polo shirts. Fashion Review: Paris Men?s Shows Offer Order Amid Chaos 2010-06-25T21:37:00Z When she told her family about her new-found interest in taxidermy, the reaction was muted. Polly Morgan's wings of desire 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z Colors: black, or maybe a muted earth tone. | New York Fashion Week: Boots for Snow and for Show 2011-02-10T02:38:41Z If you’re looking for drama or exuberance or gut-wrenching passion in music — or even just evidence of a pulse — this rather muted Danish composer may not be your cup of tea. Jack Quartet fails to find a spark in concert of pieces by composer Hans Abrahamsen If you can’t switch to all black, like my kids, try gray or some other muted color. Travel Wise | How not to look like a tourist 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z They are thickly painted in generally muted hues but with moments of intense color. Art in Review: Victor Pesce: ‘Selections: 1978-2010’ 2013-07-04T23:36:18Z The rest, while always impeccably proper, sometimes felt muted. Music Review: Looking at Schubert and Finding Hamlet 2011-03-14T23:00:13Z The pictures are mostly rendered in grays and blacks, accented by hues that are usually muted but occasionally bright. In the galleries: In ‘Gilded,’ artist Takefumi Hori applies Midas touch There were knife pleats and asymmetrical peplums on dresses above the knee and a long skirt in a muted smudge print of pink and teal. Whitney Port inspired by crown jewels for spring 2012-09-13T02:06:08Z Still, some of the worst tendencies of the media are on display, even if in muted form. Perspective | How to cover a coup — or whatever it is Trump is attempting 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The two hosts even make their points to viewers with the sound muted. A different view of the Democrats on Fox News prime time 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z In more or less muted hues the letters spell words, phrases and song titles. Art in Review: RICCI ALBENDA 2010-10-08T06:59:00Z In the early years after Appomattox and the assassination of Lincoln, a muted sense of dread haunted the country. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Then flecks of blue filtering through the branches and the muted growl of the Atlantic meeting the shore of Mount Desert Island, in Maine. Restoring Acadia’s Trails 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z "That was a tremendous shift for me because I had to move from what I'm normally more prone to use, which is a muted palette, to one that's fuller." | Below the Line: Visualizing 'Django Unchained' 2013-02-06T17:30:15Z The cool trio section, with habanera rhythms and a muted trumpet, and her use of a modified jazz progression for the main theme, reflects a creative palette that crosses time, region and culture. Clara Schumann and Florence Price Get Their Due at Carnegie Hall 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z The effect is often lovely, but its power is muted. Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In Birth, the muted colours of the opulent Upper West Side setting in New York conveyed a cloistered world that was polite but bloodless – a perfect backdrop for the story's messy, unruly emotions. Harris Savides 2012-10-12T13:11:36Z For most of the concert the band played in near darkness, with only muted green or blue lights. The xx delivers an ethereal yet precise show at the Paramount 2012-10-07T21:10:05Z Over the muted sparkle of “Home,” Goldman spoke-sang about “that rooftop party where I first heard Public Enemy” and how, in that moment of sonic enlightenment, “something shifted permanently.” Review | Vivien Goldman is stepping out of punk lore and into the present 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z With its muted rose and yellows, the angular animation is classical but inventive, even surreal. ‘The King and the Mockingbird,’ From Paul Grimault 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Everything showed scholarship, intelligence, security and period correctness, but with sonic impact being muted that was not enough. An ambitious program teams Bella Voce and Callipygian Players 2011-03-06T18:12:00Z It probably would be "Outlander," particularly actually in this country, in the US, slightly more muted in the UK. Tobias Menzies on playing Prince Philip: "I didn't feel I was ever going to get a call from him" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Its last part portrays the group drug experience with minimal psychedelic effects, only some subtly glowing colors and muted echoes. Movie Review: In ‘Crystal Fairy,’ Young U.S.Tourists Aim for the Mystical 2013-07-11T19:35:45Z But, like Ms. Carson’s speaking voice, it’s muted in overall tone. Dance Review: Poetry in Motion by Anne Carson and Rashaun Mitchell 2010-07-21T22:15:00Z But it doesn't necessarily follow that every Isolde will sound right in it, and Stemme's dark, implacable tone seemed unwieldy and disproportionately enormous against the muted orchestral colours that Dausgaard favoured. Prom 51: Swedish CO/Dausgaard 2010-08-24T11:49:00Z Rendered with an exquisitely sensitive touch in gossamer veils of severely muted color, it has a mysterious, fin-de-siècle vibe. Frieze Art Fair at Randalls Island Park Offers a Bit of Everything 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z The colours are muted but gorgeous, and while the people of Warley are all pale as alabaster, they look more elegant than ill. TV review: Room at the Top; Doomsday Preppers 2012-09-26T21:00:02Z And the social world he described should be captured in motion, not frozen in the stasis of manipulated symbol and pattern, of muted irony and elegantly veiled allusion. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Lamar’s act appeared to suffer from technical difficulties that muted periods of his performance, leading fans on social media to express their frustration. Dua Lipa, Stormzy take top honors at BRIT awards 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z R. Gregory Christie’s powerful paintings complement the narrative — featuring muted colors and limited movement in the first pages, vibrant lines and colors in the book’s second half. The best children’s and YA books of the month, February edition 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Their colors are cool, and muted, and sometimes the paintings are covered in thin ink drawings, lines, squiggles, arrows, dotted lines and references to sign language and men holding semaphore flags. Review | This visionary artist lives on an island. Does that make her insular? 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In her muted pictures she seems still to be processing that primal rejection. Art Review: Anxiety on the Fault Line 2011-03-17T22:31:02Z And at the end of the show, after he performed the incendiary “HUMBLE.” twice, he returned for a two-song encore, the swampy “FEEL.” and “GOD.,” that was decidedly more muted. Review: Kendrick Lamar, Rap’s Skeptical Superstar, Eschews Arena Spectacle 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The film’s bleached-out palette, with its muted colors — and the sometimes harsher fluorescent light of the home — heightens the atmosphere of loneliness. Movie Review: ?A Simple Life,? Directed by Ann Hui 2012-04-12T21:40:33Z The noble gestures are muted; statements become mere suggestions. Review: Chris Thile Is the God of Small Sounds 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z In what one critic called a “strangely muted and largely unfunny” performance, Rock seems less like an actor and more like a guy who has accidentally wandered onto a movie set. Stand down: when comics make unfunny big-screen comedies 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z On Thursday, the orchestra filled in the programming: heavy on appearances by its music director, Andris Nelsons, and with a focus on Beethoven, whose 250th birthday last year was muted because of widespread concert cancellations. Tanglewood Is Back This Summer, With Beethoven and Yo-Yo Ma 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps the production as a whole would feel less muted, too. Theater Review: Atlantic Theater’s Decadent, Decorous ‘Threepenny Opera’ 2014-04-08T02:00:15Z Shot in a moody, muted palette and scored in a minor key, "The Returned" is not promoting a sunny side of zombies. A&E's eerie 'The Returned' veers far from usual zombie tale 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z "Most of the backgrounds of things were fairly muted in a way, so things did kind of recede," production designer David Crank said. 'Inherent Vice' goes for Los Angeles as state of mind rather than destination 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z If “Baskets” is breaking ground, or pushing up against particular boundaries, it may not be in the muted tone of its comedy as much as in the slice of American life it portrays. No Clowning Around 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Some will rave about its lyrical tone, the muted sepia tones of its palette; others may find its pace too leisurely. My streaming gem: why you should watch Happy as Lazzaro 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Steel City: This medium-size, outstanding variety sports spring growth in a muted silver turning to blue-green, and the growth habit is dense and uniform. Heuchera is a popular perennial for shade, but which variety is best? 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Here she was backed by only the up-and-coming Nashville duo Striking Matches: Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis, both singing and strumming, expertly blending with her muted style. Music Review: Ashley Monroe, Resilient Country Singer, at Joe’s Pub 2014-04-15T21:34:16Z Her new collection, “Honeydew”, may be more muted in tone, but it retains the 78-year-old author’s ferociously individual style, characterised by prose that is bolshie yet nuanced, elegant but not fussy, stylish without being vain. First among equals 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z The muted, blotchy and weathered hues imply damage and loss, while the buildings invoke tradition and permanence. In the galleries: Finding new ways to take in the natural world 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z I also muted terms like “heart attack,” “heart failure” and “cardiovascular” on social media because I couldn’t stop worrying. When My Heart Broke, My Father Used Google to Save Me 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z But the response from top musicians inside Russia has been muted. Pussy Riot not a big hit with Russian pop stars 2012-08-16T16:57:38Z The floating water lily pads and clumps of pickerelweed in “Passengers” give off a muted glow amid their reflections. | Westchester: A Review of ‘Hudson River Explorers,’ in Yonkers 2012-09-01T04:29:48Z Speaking at a muted press conference, McConaughey responded to questions about the film’s uneasy reception with magnanimity. Matthew McConaughey on The Sea of Trees: 'Anyone has as much right to boo as they do to ovate' 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z Away from the crowd, Lisa’s office is warm and cheery, in muted reds with Oriental rugs. On the Scene: At Lisa Scottoline’s Book-Club Party 2013-11-05T19:36:27Z I couldn't discern much extra chew in the chocolate chip cookies or in the sugar cookies, though I did notice a muted flavor in both. The absolute best way to make chewy cookies, according to so many tests 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z But her new work will be more muted by comparison. In the Studio With an Artist Who Paints in a ‘Color Trance’ 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z The harmonies are thickened and the colorations are muted. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Some days, the vividness of what I’ve recovered is muted, or slower and harder to access. Will Fish Sauce and Charred Oranges Return the World Covid Took From Me? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z But he is underserved by Mr. Liao’s performance, which is more muted than charismatic. 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