Sentence examples for point of understatement from inspiring English sources

Perhaps Conte, placid to the point of understatement in his dealings with the media since his arrival, already has one in mind privately; regardless, the speed at which his revolution is unfolding could yet make Ferguson's rather more public prediction seem naive indeed.

Deadpan joke-telling seemed to come from the same mentality as the British art of understatement: the point was that you would by all means avoid making an outward show of what was going on inside your head.

For example, Nate Silver's initial assessment of average bias— whether polls collectively favored one party or the other in 2014 found an average four percentage point understatement of Republican Senate margins.

To put those numbers into context, consider this: In backtesting the HuffPollster model against the last two Senate mid-term elections, the biggest error by far was a roughly 6 percentage point understatement of Hary Reid's margin in 2006.

And not to labour the point, but how many of your favourite movie lines are classics of understatement?

She recorded nothing for two years, and the payoff, "Rendezvous," took understatement to the point of incoherence.

That smacked of understatement.

That was a bit of understatement.

That is a masterpiece of understatement.

He may have been guilty of understatement.

Sellers was also a master of understatement.