Sentence examples for real understatement from inspiring English sources

The book was generally well received, with a reviewer in The Montreal Gazette describing Carlin as "an adventurer of the old school – full of the explorer's instinct, and with a dry wit that makes his story an odd mixture of high-adventure and real understatement".

To call "This Beautiful Life" timely is almost an understatement, since real life regularly generates plenty of clueless but weirdly understandable behavior like that of Schulman's characters.

But when they're all tallied up, Besharov says the net effect is a dramatic understatement of real income.

To state that we have a huge challenge ahead and no real solutions is an understatement.

"To say that the race was a real struggle would be an understatement," said the 43-year-old German.

Revolution went from being a fringe idea to a very real possibility.It might be the understatement of a century to note that there are significant differences between 1908 and 2012.

For real? Yeah, but it might be understatement.

That's an understatement - 25% of the team have formed real-life relationships with people they met online, one resulting in marriage.

It's therefore an understatement to say that I was eagerly looking forward to the "real" thing when it came time for them to finish college.

And yet, for all its thematic understatement, this painting is also saying, as if by default, something of real importance about the relationship between painter and nature.

"It's one area, one piece of real estate, that's probably very important to most males," he remarked, with mild understatement.