Surviving contemporary reviews show a muted critical response to the film.

Perhaps designers should start adding their own applause track like television does to cover up a muted response.

The news of the sharp decline in the black unemployment rate brought a muted response from some civil rights organizations.

Investors gave a muted response to the new product announcement.

They might also account for the generally muted public response.

The price of gold responded with a muted response and then drove higher to hit new highs one day later.

This part of his speech got a muted response.

Elsewhere, financial markets gave a muted response to the Democrats' triumph.

One reason for the muted response to the new figures by the American side is that it has been disappointed before.

Perhaps because it was simply a further extension of recent trends, the report generated only a muted response in the financial markets.