Subdued
of Subdue
Conquered; overpowered; crushed; submissive; mild.
Not glaring in color; soft in tone.
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Subdued Quotations
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
Samuel Butler
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Edith Wharton
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice Wood
Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
Barbara Amiel
A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
Hugh Mackay
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
Allen Tate
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