Word: low-key
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...long way to an Ivy or NCAA title--but if Harvard continues to uphold its tradition of dominance, the celebrations won't stay low-key for long...
...widely noted for his skill with ballads, but he has packed in a few humdingers here, including songs of love in advancing age (Evening Gown) and against tall odds (Hang On to Me Tonight). Most surprising of all, Wandering Spirit closes with an unexpected knockout combination of two low-key tunes: Angel in My Heart, which has instrumental echoes of the Stones' classic Lady Jane, and Handsome Molly, a traditional folk song that gives the record a coda that lingers like the end of a ghostly love story...
Thorne said he did not report the matter to thepolice or his proctor because he wanted to keepthe matter "low-key...
Cooper's Natty was in his forties and very low-key; he liked to hang out with Indians and shoot a deer now and then. Not very marketable. The new-style Natty Bumppo (Daniel Day-Lewis) has had so many heroic stereotypes packed into him that he seems nearly schizophrenic. New Natty is young and hot-blooded; he makes speeches about independence from England (at a time when dupes like George Washington were still supporting the Crown), schmoozes with settlers and isn't averse to clasping a woman in his arms and breathing heavy. Day-Lewis alternates between agitation...
...three members of this famous love triangle are abruptly damned in an operatic epilogue about male-dominated class structures and the challenges of feminism. The message is unexceptionable but jarring. Perhaps Sontag, like Vesuvius, simply blew her top. More likely, the outburst was calculated to amplify an otherwise low-key narrative and convince readers that the author is not only postmodern but also politically correct...