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Do not expect subdued taste and restraint" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few feel that Anderson doesn't pull it off: Magnolia , a "big, showy flower of a movie, unfurls brilliantly, each plot petal a thing of exquisite design.
To produce his bizarre painting The Courtesan (1887), van Gogh enlarged the traced image, replaced the subdued blacks and grays of the kimono with bright complementary reds and greens, and added a fantasy Japanese background of storks and frogs borrowed from other Japanese prints.
These tribes were eventually subdued by the Visigoths, who controlled much of southern Spain for some 300 years.
The lives of saints Lawrence and Stephen are depicted in delicately subdued pinks and blues.
Analysts attributed the company's problems to overly subdued colors in Hilfiger's women's line . The company did say it was 'fully committed to enhancing long-term shareholder value.