Dorothy L. Sayers

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.

British Author

Aldous Huxley

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

English Novelist

Robin Marantz Henig

There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.

Writer

Anne Applebaum

Political leaders in Belarus are routinely repressed, and their voices are muffled: Tsikhanouskaya was running for president because her husband, Siarhei Tsikhanouski, was arrested before he could start his own presidential campaign.

American Journalist

Kate DiCamillo

It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.

American Author

John Podhoretz

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

American Writer

Mary Stewart

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.

Charles Baudelaire

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

French Poet

F. Sionil Jose

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

Filipino Writer

Alec Guinness

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.

English Actor

Muffling affects sound quality, often making words difficult to understand.

Diminished Clarity

Muffling is usually deliberate, such as to avoid being overheard.

Intentional Act

Muffling reduces noise but does not eliminate it entirely.

Partial Silence

Muffling with clothing implies protecting against cold or wind.

Protection from Cold

Wrapping to muffle involves an action akin to enclosing or cocooning.

Enclosing Movement

Muffling can convey a sense of coziness and comfort.

Comfort and Coziness

 because sounds from the outside world have to travel through the mother's abdominal tissue and through the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus the voices fetuses here starting around the fourth month of gestation are muted and muffled one researcher says that they probably sound a lot like the voice

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 you plug your nose right now just go ahead bear with me plug your nose and swallow you're gonna get a weird monthly sensation in your ears that's very minor and temporary but imagine ten times that it's really difficult to hear when the environment is muffled and the problem here is that

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 they're basically socks that we stuff in the giraffe's ear to try to you know keep them calm you know muffle out sounds and then the blindfold is sort of like um maybe a potato sack type texture so they can kind of see through it you know but it's still helping keep

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 But when I answered the phone, I was met with a tone that was unlike anything I had ever heard from my mother. My mother's loud. But she spoke in a hush, still, muffled tone that conveyed a sense of sadness. And as she whispered, she said, "Michael,

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 Swollen hair cells are unable to vibrate with the appropriate speed and accuracy, making hearing muffled. This kind of hearing loss is known as a temporary threshold shift, and many people will experience it at least once in their lifetime.

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 the very soft and furry nature of the bottom of his pads they're very furry between the toes does helped him muffle his footfalls as well oh sorry I'm trying to control my excitement here as well but the situation with these

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 ecosystem especially hyena so it's there's a strong possibility one will come on to the fray the wind could be helping these cheats in terms of it muffling the sounds of this wildebeest bellowing bleating and it will also be

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 Yet they exact a heavy toll. So what can we do? We are all vulnerable to bias, but we don't act on bias all the time. There are certain conditions that can bring bias alive and other conditions that can muffle it.

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 You now walk the same path as these early artists. And in this surreal, otherworldly place, it's almost possible to imagine that you hear the muffled footfall of skin boots on soft earth,

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 I'm going to begin by reciting a poem. "Oh beloved Your rubber fingers in my mouth your voice so soft and muffled Lower the mask, dear dentist,

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