I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death as winter tightens its grip.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
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?
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.
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.
I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.