Sentence examples for pattern of understatement from inspiring English sources

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

There is also a dash of Cayce Pollard, the brand-averse cool hunter of Mr. Gibson's novel "Pattern Recognition," a paragon of understatement in boys' Fruit of the Loom T-shirts, black 501 jeans, her clothes scraped free of logos, her hair, as Mr. Gibson described it, "poking up like a toilet brush".

That smacked of understatement.

That was a bit of understatement.

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

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

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

Ms. Tharp has rarely been accused of understatement.

Darling is a master of understatement.

• INSIDE TRACK: A master of understatement.

His performance is a marvel of understatement.