Sentence examples for form of understatement from inspiring English sources

It's a technique many designers are using, and it's a very effective form of understatement.

The British, Mr. Jacobs suggests, prefer a more restrained, text-bound approach, "a typically British form of understatement" with "as few notes as possible".

Those statements form a pattern of understatement adopted after the failure last year to find any fugitives at Tora Bora.

But they are also Yale and Kennebunkport, which might mean that we will see Topsiders, other forms of Ivy League understatement and longer traffic delays on U.S. 1 in Maine.

Sir is the familiar form of address to clients; solicitous understatement is the tone.

Preston and colleagues (1999) demonstrate that all forms of age misreporting (understatement, overstatement, both) lead to lower observed death rates than exist in unbiased data.

That smacked of understatement.

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

That is a rare moment of understatement in the Middle East.

That was a bit of understatement.

But on one subject he is guilty of understatement: diversity.