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I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.
Om Malik
Silence
Fog
Muted
Like
Sounds
Grey
Shroud
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.
Joan Didion
Me
Strong
Black
Clothes
Rose
Muted
Eccentric
Seems
Had
Retrospect
Child
Dusty
Greens
Element
Chosen
Amount
I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.
Anne Robinson
God
Together
Made
Too
Muted
Colours
Put
Fading
Like
Look
Most
Another
Redheads
Without
Trying
Want
Prefer
Hard
Rainbow
I've been getting interested in reimagining folk songs and writing songs that should have existed but didn't, particularly around the Civil War when black voices were muted and only allowed particular channels.
Rhiannon Giddens
War
Writing
Black
Channels
Folk
Folk Songs
Muted
Civil
Civil War
Only
Voices
Songs
Allowed
Particular
Particularly
Around
Were
Been
Existed
Getting
Interested
Should
My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.
Abhijit Banerjee
Me
Seen
Own
Sense
Would
Muted
Superiority
Classmates
My Own
More
Had
Knew
Failing
Over
Been
Woodwork
Much
Many
What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian Mcewan
Savage
Myself
You
Run
Muted
Unpredictable
Some
Something
Colours
Opera
Likes
Passionate
Discovered
Loud
Confirmed
Really
Bold
Round
Murmuring
Need
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
Kate Millett
Culture
Power
Ideology
Our
Sexual
Muted
Nevertheless
Perhaps
Most
Concept
However
Provides
Dominion
May
Pervasive
Appearance
Fundamental
Present
People don't realize that the Obama Administration has been, if anything, harder on whistleblowers than the Bush Administration. Part of the reason is that they know that the response will be more muted because the traditional constituency supporting whistleblowers just happen to be the same constituency as Obama's.
Jonathan Turley
People
Will
Response
Has-Been
Obama
Administration
Obama Administration
Muted
More
Part
Supporting
Know
Because
Traditional
Been
Than
Same
Just
Happen
Anything
Bush
Bush Administration
Realize
Reason
Harder
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
Donna Mills
Me
Happy
Dark
Important
Muted
Seductive
Somber
Scene
Colors
Were
Even
Brighter
My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors.
Jessica Pare
Natural
Black
White
Muted
Colors
Toward
Sort
Burgundy
Cool
Gravitation
Gray
It was nice to play something that felt a little more muted or internalized in 'The Daughter.'
Geoffrey Rush
Daughter
Nice
Muted
Something
More
Felt
Little
Play