Word: tamed
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Pathé was tried last May, but for the most part his writing was not examined in court. Compared with the normal stream of invective and accusations running through France's hyperactive partisan press, Pathé's personal editorializing seemed tame indeed. As one French intelligence officer acknowledges, "If the court had only ruled on what Pathé wrote, he would not have been condemned...
Corporate product-plugging accounts for the presence of such mediocre bands as the Urban Verbs, Pearl Harbor and Robin Lane, all of which sound slick, derivative and, well, utterly tame in comparison to their earlier counterparts...
...century's wildest hurricanes turns tame over Texas...
...every one such painting there were a dozen tame, regional variations on then popular French artists like Bastien-Lepage or Tissot, whose work provided a palatable substitute for the analytic modernity represented by impressionism at its best. Hence the Boston show is heavily freighted with affable but basically in sipid dining-room pictures of young Wasp rosebuds swathed in yards of white voile, clustered on lawns, playing on beaches, posing on verandas or picking flowers. They make one realize how badly America needed modern art. Not until the ad vent of some of the impressionist-influenced painters of "the Eight...
Erwartung's nightmare ambiguities can have a haunting power. The Santa Fe production makes them rather tame, except in the astringent sonorities arising from the orchestra pit. Soprano Nancy Shade, as the woman, has command of Schoenberg's difficult idiom, but her voice lacks the dramatic weight for a role that, as Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers describes it, is essentially "Isolde in nervous disintegration...