Sentence examples for a kind of understatement from inspiring English sources

The key to Mr. Moravec's playing is a kind of understatement that draws the listener into his world, and an interpretive individuality that keeps his world lively.

This sixty-page, plainspoken story benefits from a kind of understatement that Gurganus can insert the way another writer will deploy a flourish: "You can't imagine the heat in some of my clients' homes".

The whole enterprise is marked by a kind of aggressive understatement.

A trim man of medium height -- the scales within "a couple of pounds" of his Marine weight -- he is given to a kind of comic understatement.

"And that improved it greatly," says Tuomey, with a certain kind of understatement.

When "Once and Again" turns wry, it operates with a similar kind of understatement.

There's a deadness to that kind of understatement, a slow asphyxiation by chic.

This shoe brings a dynamic, whizzy kind of understatement.

His mode of understatement, a kind of pressure-cooker effect, was often highly effective.

It would be the most severe kind of understatement to say that a good time was had by all.

One of his best-known poems, "Shtiler, Shtiler" (1914; "Hush, Hush") is "a credo for a poetry of nuance and understatement, a kind of allegorical reflection on the state of modern Jewish life, and a play upon the messianic expectation that runs through the whole Jewish experience" (according to the American literary and social critic Irving Howe).