Sentence examples for a modest understatement from inspiring English sources
"No trouble" was a modest understatement for a success that included a Pulitzer Prize novel and two others in the final consideration for the award, two honorary college degrees and a fortune in book club royalties and movie rights.
A visit to Mr. Parkin's crowded office reveals him to be a 51-year-old British-American scientist for whom the term hyperactive is a modest understatement at best.
She says she "dabbles" in modern technology, but that's a modest understatement given she's a prolific user of social networks like Twitter, where she has more than 430,000 followers -- and seems to embrace new media, including a video game adaptation of her latest novel.
But to say that this evidence is consistent is a very modest understatement.
It's at that point that the title track appears, bringing with it that legendary musical signifier of modest understatement, a 36-piece orchestra: strings saw dramatically, brass blares out, little bursts of woodwind scurry about, what appears to be a dulcimer and something that sounds like a celeste attempt to muscle in on the action.
With the final polling averages showing Romney ahead by just a percentage point or two, it would take only modest understatement to put Santorum in the lead.
That was modest understatement.
Back in town, the most important building is the Palazzo Ducale, which was built by the local ruling dynasty, the Gonzagas, in the days when modest understatement wasn't really the thing.
St Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich, Sat; Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, Fri JA Though its usual mode of modest understatement and insistent consonance often seems worlds away from most of the work that it usually plays, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group has consistently championed Howard Skempton's music, with a succession of commissions and premieres.
Keep your claims modest, because understatement comes over well, and even nonspecialists can smell exaggeration.
A bit of an understatement.
