Sentence examples for degree of understatement from inspiring English sources

"There were many problems off the pitch," says Grant, with a hefty degree of understatement.

I had a drink," said the bishop, with what may or may not be a degree of understatement.

"That will be another space to get my head around," he says, with a degree of understatement.

As The World in 2012 presciently observed, with a fair degree of understatement:Iraq will disappoint, as the once-ruling Sunni minority and the Shia majority now in charge fail to accommodate each other's demands.

For one, Silver says with a degree of understatement, "to have some mass catastrophe is one downside risk," but getting the population of the next century right is really about calling India and China right: if they don't act as expected, all bets are off.

So when Mr Cameron talks of "untapped potential" and there being "much more to do", he is speaking with some degree of understatement.

It was not, he says with a degree of bemused understatement, something he ever expected to see.

"There was considerable discussion of the result and analysis of the possible course open to the government," writes Armstrong with an almost subterranean degree of Whitehall understatement.

If it did happen there would be a degree of excitement involved … That's an understatement".

That smacked of understatement.

Mr. Jackson, it turns out, is a master of understatement.