Sentence examples for characteristic understatement from inspiring English sources
Ms. MacMillan, with characteristic understatement, calls these "interesting predictions".
"It's kind of ironic," he said with characteristic understatement.
But he was clearly distracted by what he calls, with characteristic understatement, "this new busy-ness".
His current endeavour is an "official" docu-biography called (with characteristic understatement) Pelé Forever.
"Someone was not happy with the court's previous decision," Judge Albakov said with characteristic understatement.
The Rangers, Shinseki now concedes, in a characteristic understatement, "were very vocal" in their opposition.
The driver asked him what he did for a living, and Marías, who is often cited as the likely future recipient of a Nobel Prize, responded with characteristic gentlemanly understatement: "I write books".
"I was very disappointed," Watson says in characteristic, laconic understatement.
Hertzberg goes on to tick off a litany of misperceptions on the part of the electorate, adding with his characteristic gentle understatement, "But why don't the American people know these things.
"If I was younger an' more bullet-proof I'd take a chance," he said with characteristic candor and understatement.
With characteristic restraint and understatement, the N.F.L. season began last night, in Seattle, where the Seahawks started their Super Bowl title defense by beating the Green Bay Packers.
