So confident is he that he jokes fondly about his new running mate's flat campaign style, calling it with notable understatement "a little more laid-back than mine".
Their self-proclaimed leader, José Manuel Mireles, is recovering from broken ribs sustained in a recent plane crash ("I'm not 100% well," he acknowledges from a secret site in Mexico City, with notable understatement).
And as Lugar said with notable understatement, U.S. operations "have assumed a different character than you suggested when you announced the decision to initiate them". Obama has made a perfunctory request for congressional approval of this war but clearly will proceed without it.
The signs, Roberts added, with notable understatement, "certainly convey Westboro's position on those issues".
"It's a tough decision to make knowing that people's lives will be placed in danger," Mina said on Monday morning, with notable understatement.
"We can hope that the Congress takes this energy efficiency budget in total and enacts it, but that's perhaps unlikely," he said, with notable understatement.
"Without football, NBC doesn't have the strongest schedule in the world," Shari Anne Brill, the senior vice president and programming director for the media agency Carat USA, said with notable understatement.
To say Postecoglou's start in senior football was notable is an understatement.
A bit of an understatement.
It was a wild understatement.
That's a big understatement.
