Eksempler på subdue

• It is also a multicultural invention that conjures a cultural calendar to subdue the irregularities of nature.

• The wish to subdue finds no immediate point of attack.

• They gradually realized that their hostile policy had unwittingly contributed to the strengthening of an enemy they intended to subdue.

• He wants to be able to say that his hopelessly subdued housewife lacks desires for freedoms that she has reason to value.

• As will be seen, the seniority of the four brothers had helped a great deal to subdue their potential conflicts.

• However, their effect is to increase desire rather than subdue it.

• This must be more than a subdued animal welfarist point of view; it must be incorporated into our daily way of thinking about nonhuman animals.

• There is clearly a mutual acceptance to subdue anarchical displays in favour of homogeneity.

• In a rather subdued decade, these books easily pass muster as the most luminous examples of scholarship in agrarian history.

• As the underbelly of things, materials may lie low but are never entirely subdued.

• This law does, and so emotions are subdued beneath the quiet, impersonal order that law imposes on the family and individual alike.

• I wilfully subdued any ideological opposition that might be welling up in my breast or agitating my brain.

• The audience is respectfully subdued, and the musicians dress in black.

• This limiting factor simply restricts the composer's imagination, having their creativity subdued by the technology it employs.

• The granulites form chains of hills and isolated hillocks amidst banded gneisses, which occur in a country of subdued topography.