Sentence examples for an understated effort from inspiring English sources

In the 1980s a newish firm called Four Seasons managed to reproduce this magic across a handful of luxury hotels, with staff who made an understated effort to be helpful.

In an understated effort in the struggling Auburn Gresham neighborhood, about 20 teenagers with the March for Our Lives movement began a 20-state summer bus tour with a drive to register young voters and encourage them to go to the polls.

Among the welter of cosplayers weaving through the corridors in outfits that ranged from Wonder Woman to Pokemon, my little, understated effort stood out about as vividly as a single rose in a field of poppies.

And Hummels epitomized Dortmund's understated effort.

Joel often appears nondescript, and Mr. Carrey puts in enough understated effort that the lack of delineation almost doesn't register -- a stylized way of compensating for a deficit.

The testing is the latest step in an understated official effort to prove the goodwill and integrity of the Tour and the cycling union after the drug scandal that plagued the race in 1998.

MS. EDKINS, an understated 43-year-old from New Zealand, leads BlackRock's corporate governance effort.

"Tombeau" is an understated ballet.

Whitmore is an understated guy.

He cracked an understated smile.

True, he is an understated Finn.