Sentence examples for classic understatement from inspiring English sources

"We are not stupid," Monica Gabrielle said, in classic understatement.

"Obviously it was a good first week back together," Murray said, in classic understatement.

In a classic understatement, he added: "It really calls into question whether or not this was the kind of offer that would be considered to be good faith".

"We've got a real challenge," Mrs. Werronen says in a bit of the classic understatement that she learned after a career in both public relations and State Department diplomacy.

"I thought they would age better," he said, in a classic understatement.

Laura Robson summed up Britain's number three with classic understatement when she said: "I think Dan is a very interesting character".

Which is a classic Walker understatement.

With classic Brussels understatement, one E.U. official — insisting on anonymity because of the sensitivities involved — conceded that the intense horse-trading had made the negotiation tortuous.

When Janine Gibson, the editor in chief of The Guardian's Web site in the United States, realized that one of her columnists had a scoop about secret National Security Agency surveillance — potentially one of the biggest leaks in American intelligence history — she presented it to The Guardian's top editor in London with classic British understatement.

It was classic Vatican understatement, given that Turkish nationalists had been rioting to prevent it; the Army was virtually occupying Istanbul to keep them from rioting again; and the country's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was fleeing to a NATO meeting in Latvia — and only at the last minute announced that he might have time for the Pope at the Ankara airport just before his flight.

It was classic Vatican understatement, given that Turkish nationalists had been rioting to prevent it; the Army was virtually occupying Istanbul to keep them from rioting again; and the country's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was fleeing to a NATO meeting in Latvia and only at the last minute announced that he might have time for the Pope at the Ankara airport just before his flight.