Mr. Lieberman has also chosen to adopt an understated tone when laying into Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney.
The stories in Manuel Gonzales's first collection, "The Miniature Wife" (Riverhead), are shot through with outlandish events relayed in an understated tone.
When Facebook reported its latest earnings results, less than a month ago, Mark Zuckerberg, its C.E.O., got on a call with analysts and, in an understated tone, laid out a vision for the future that sounded quite different from the company's past.
In his opinion, which was written in an especially understated tone, in notable contrast to the bombastic rhetoric that accompanied the war on terror, he cited Rutledge's dissent in the Ahrens case — which he himself had helped write, fifty-six yearlierrliearlier
Mr. Lederer was woollier, more guttural, a compendium of wheezes, honks and squeals; Mr. Knuffke took a deliberate path, with elliptical phrases and a coolly understated tone.
The actresses, Ms. Dalle, Anne Bellec and Frederique Ruchaud, somehow convincingly portray more than a dozen mostly male characters and deliver lines that describe horrifying events in a calm, understated tone.
The clever name sets a more understated tone than those of the browsers Chrome will compete with: Explorer, Safari and Firefox.
"Lily came by her obtuse optimism honestly, and it later served her well," Ms. Moffat writes about Lily Forster, in a deftly understated tone that, to Forster's devoted readers, will sound apt and familiar.
Yet principal French horn Andrew Bain was up to the task in the Concerto No. 4, producing a mellow, understated tone that contrasted with the zesty accompaniment.
Bell knows the primary and scholarly literature well, carefully sifts fact from myth and generally maintains a sober and responsible understated tone.
The QC used his customary polite, sometimes understated, tone - but this was a criticism of politicians whom he said hadn't fully thought through some of the proposals announced in early September.
