Sentence examples for a gentle understatement from inspiring English sources

One critic says she pushes all the buttons and that would be a gentle understatement.

Leading the country is "a great opportunity, but it will be difficult," Ryan said in a gentle understatement.

Kent Haruf's final novel, Our Souls at Night (Picador), is a triumph of gentle understatement.

Chambers is the fashion director of British Vogue and is all quiet restraint, with a soft voice and a nice line in gentle understatement.

Hertzberg goes on to tick off a litany of misperceptions on the part of the electorate, adding with his characteristic gentle understatement, "But why don't the American people know these things.

It's there in his love of his allotment, his terrible dress sense, his gentle understatement and the way he waits sternly during prime minister's questions for MPs to stop mucking about at the back of the class.

A bit of an understatement.

It was a wild understatement.

That's a big understatement.

This was a colossal understatement.

That proved a serious understatement.