Sentence examples for a picture of understatement from inspiring English sources

Rafael Figueroa's cello solos were a picture of understatement, and the various dance rhythms of the orchestra as a whole were elegantly managed.

She is the picture of understatement and chic.

Lily Allen, ever the queen of the understatement, tweeted a picture of the helicopter that flew her to Worthy Farm, while Sarah Brown described how she was "sitting with Michael and Emily Eavis in the Tree Café onsite", before praising the Water-Aid-branded wellies that were widely available.

Clegg paints the delegates a picture of his first day as deputy prime minister: "To say the coalition caught Whitehall off guard is a massive understatement".

Rattling along the Kent coast on the 13.32 from Dover Priory to little Sandwich (with Ham and Rye not far away), it occurred that Turner could not have improved on the picture of English understatement framed in the train's window, all flat and dull under grey balls of cloud with not a threat to be seen.

That was a bit of understatement.

Darling is a master of understatement.

• INSIDE TRACK: A master of understatement.

His performance is a marvel of understatement.

Brahms is a master of understatement.

That is a masterpiece of understatement.