Word: mutedness
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At best, the Dowling Committee's revised student assembly would function as a muted advisor to the University administration--the same role fulfilled by the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life and the Committee on Undergraduate Education since they were constituted a decade ago, when students had too much political...
The willingness of the robot to do the dirty work, like some mechanized Turkish Gastarbeiter, has muted alarms about the loss of jobs and has kept the labor unions mostly at bay. Welding cars and spraying paint are stupefying jobs, and, besides, they are ideally done at temperatures hotter than...
The actors, indeed, seem confined as most of the action takes place on a black platform surrounded by wooden railing and decorated only with three hard benches. The platform mostly serves as the stable where 17-year-old Alan Strang blinded six horses and as the claustrophobic office of Dr...
Many of Lippmann's friends and followers totally abandoned faith in his judgement as he muted any strong criticism of Nazism in his columns. Here, Steel treats Lippmann's irresolution along with his entire life of repressed Judaism with tactful compassion, but he does not come down hard enough on...
That makes the Israelis all the more nervous, since those weapons could be used against their own air force in a new, wider Middle East war. For tactical reasons, Saddam Hussein has softened his rhetoric when talking to conservative fellow Arabs, but he has not significantly muted his denunciations of...