Sentence examples for model of understatement from inspiring English sources

"ENEMUY IN THE WIRE ENEMY IN THE WIRE!!!" An entry soon after was a model of understatement: "We need support".

Now, to say that Time Inc. and the Tribune papers suffer from lots of dead wood is a model of understatement.

But the play's concluding scene, which brings the denouement of the court case from an entirely unexpected witness (the family, so intensely involved, manages to miss the climactic moment), is a model of understatement and quiet surprise.

When Rosa tells Yancy about one of her post-mortems, on a man with a clarinet wedged up his colon — though he was killed by an oboist who shot him in the head — Yancy's rejoinder is a model of understatement: "Shakespeare was born too soon".

"Simply put," notes the report in a model of understatement, "there are not enough tenure-track academic positions for the available pool of biomedical researchers".

In a model of understatement, Shaub observed that "in working with the current administration, it has become clear to me that we need improvements to the existing ethics program".

He whispers, in a model of Maine understatement, "They're good people".

The circumstances of this loss are shocking, Logue's account of them a model of stoical understatement.

It's a beautifully crafted body of work, a model of choral understatement that other contemporary British choral composers could well learn from.

THE ECONOMIST ON IPAD free In keeping with the magazine's brand, the Economist's iPad app is a model of elegant understatement, offering digitised issues for £3.99 each or as part of a subscription.

Living in London, a model of calm and understatement in the face of his own experiences, he has first-hand experience of how the regime operates.