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It's not the flashy whizbang, but often the more quiet, lowkey products that work so simply and elegantly in a way that you actually use them and they improve your work.
Robert J. Elisberg: Live from the Consumer Electronics Show: Day 1 Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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Dan Mac, who had been relatively lowkey on the keyboard prior to this song, hopped onto an amp, downed a cup full of beer and dove head first into a guitar solo.
Taryn Haight: The Perfect Balance of Art vs. Science Taryn Haight 2011
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FROM COLORADO, Sun headed to the East Coast, traveling in his usual lowkey manner, avoiding publicity.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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For some reason, the shoegazer-styled trailer makes lowkey human discussion enticing…
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Unlike some who live in the past — and some fans I spoke with agreed — I would have liked to have heard a few more songs from the new album, and thought “The Wrestler” quite powerful in its lowkey confessional setting, while “Kingdom of Days” was a lovely heartache-filled piece of pop.
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Good thing about a notepad is they are lowkey and easy to pass off as meeting related.
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Very lowkey performance halfway between lethargic and heartfelt.
Postcards From China: Poster for John Woo’s Next, Teaser Trailer for Jackie Chan’s Latest | /Film 2009
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They clapped in places that no one clapped the night before and but were much more lowkey than the Dallas audience.
Sheryl Crow: Dispatch from the Stop Global Warming Tour, Day 3 2008
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And while I 'get' the lowkey approach, next time a little hint for the LA locals would be grand ...
check one two 2008
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It was so lowkey that I wonder what else was in there that I may have missed.
Just Listen 2006
alexz commented on the word lowkey
opposite of highkey
May 3, 2017