Sentence examples for not given to understatement from inspiring English sources

Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov is not given to understatement.

Admissions, especially in cases of this kind, are notoriously unreliable; and watermen are not given to understatement.

Mr. Karadzic, not given to understatement, insisted his party was not made up of hostile or uncivilized people.

And for once, in a sport not given to understatement, the self-fulfilling hype may be justified – at least as far as the sums are concerned.

Not given to understatement on this subject, but recognizing the enormous new opportunities Yao presents, Alexander, the Rockets' owner, calls his team "the best co-branding opportunity in the world".

Altitude and technology will not only cause goalkeepers stress, but also make balls carry too far on crosses, causing some headers to be missed by two feet, said Marcus Hahnemann, a reserve keeper for the United States and a man not given to understatement.

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

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.

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

He was not only taciturn, but given to understatement.

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