Sentence examples similar to rhetorical understatement from inspiring English sources
When the children were involved in a conflict, rhetorical questions and understatement were used more, while positive interactions usually involved sarcasm and hyperbole.
So a group of Canadian researchers set out to record parents and children at home as they used four types of ironic language: sarcasm, hyperbole, understatement and rhetorical questions.
The histrionics are there precisely in Suleiman's understatement; the film's polemical and rhetorical edge is, literally, the edge of the frame and the edge of the editing-table blade (or its digital equivalent).
"I'm not being racist, but …" It's one of those pointless British rhetorical habits that manages to serve as both understatement and alert to the imminent utterance of something that is indeed racist.
The language achieves its effects by understatement and subtle nuance rather than by rhetorical flourish.
The above questions are not rhetorical; to say their answers are important is an understatement.
Okay, enough rhetorical questions.
That was an understatement.
