Sentence examples for given to understatement from inspiring English sources

Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov is not given to understatement.

He was not only taciturn, but given to understatement.

The Brighton & Hove Albion manager is not a man given to understatement.

Russian commentators, not normally given to understatement, played the whole spy scandal down.

Or given to understatement as he was, he summed it up simply as "not good".

Always given to understatement, Yourcenar later played down the affection between herself and her father.

Ms. Hostvedt, who was born in 1971 and is having her first solo exhibition, is given to gently ironic understatement.

and the Kings (majority-owned by A.E.G .. Leiweke, a bearish man of fifty-four, with rugged good looks and an unruly cowlick, is an inspired salesman, not given to modesty or understatement.

But Mr. Lawrence is given to that kind of understatement.

Assessing the tenure of Dr. Gillespie -- a slender 76-year-old given to quiet speech and understatement -- Barbara G. Wheeler, president of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City, placed him in "the very honorable tradition of the learned ministry".

A trim man of medium height -- the scales within "a couple of pounds" of his Marine weight -- he is given to a kind of comic understatement.