Word: mutedness
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So what you had instead was some Republicans essentially apologizing to White for their votes. That moved the proceedings along - and also muted the possibility that White's testimony would be really explosive.
Well, for one thing it's probably a violation of the free trade agreements to which Washington is a signatory. The Europeans, Canadians and Latin Americans who trade freely with both Cuba and the U.S. have responded sharply to what they perceive as a U.S. attempt to impose its own...
In later life, Schulz joked that he looked like a druggist. Genial, smiling, with straight white teeth and a head of silver hair, he dressed modestly in muted slacks and pastel golf sweaters. He stood a trim five feet eleven and a half inches ("I never quite got to six...
Anderson plays Lily, handsomely, as a rare creature trapped under glass. The air thins; her breath shortens. And the viewer watches, appreciative of her plight, all but moved. The film is under glass as well. Davies, whose Distant Voices, Still Lives is a muted masterpiece, here is closer to Masterpiece...
Perhaps the best example of the brilliance of the orchestration was in the third movement nocturne, in which Corigliano attempted to recreate the sound he heard during a stay in Morocco, when the calls of muezzins from different mosques collided and "created a glorious counterpoint." In the symphony, beautiful dovetailing...