Sentence examples similar to marked understatement from inspiring English sources

His century, reached with a single to mid-on, was marked with nice understatement and a look of mild relief that his career had gained some fulfilment.

On the bookshelves is a spine marked "Latin"; another "Understatement": Perry's sly nod to the cultural capital hoarded by the chattering classes.

If the Americans returned, "it would not disturb me," said Sophie Bara, a woman in her 40s who works for a government agency, understatement marking her voice.

The 48-year-old Lisbon-based artist's first solo London show, which I see as a continuation of the Swiss exhibition, is marked by its reticence, its understatement.

The whole enterprise is marked by a kind of aggressive understatement.

As in all his work, the narrative was marked by genial self-effacement and overwhelming understatement.

In a country so devoted to understatement, Mr. Trudeau's ascendancy marked a radical departure.

Since Robbins wanted understatement — the sense of dances being marked rather than delivered full out — this manner has nothing wrong with it.

In both cases Mr. Mather's approach has been marked by sensitivity and a sense of restrained understatement that seems to fit with his dry, understated personality.

The novel's concluding pages conjure up the sensations of the hunter and the hunted wonderfully well, with, uncharacteristically, understatement, the mark of authority.

Yet such understatement is the mark of cultural confidence.