Sentence examples for slight understatement from inspiring English sources

As it turned out, that was a slight understatement.

Premiering in the US tomorrow, to say that it's heavily anticipated is a slight understatement.

"Well, we won this," Mr. Medgyssey told supporters tonight, with the slight understatement that is becoming his political trademark.

Despite their differences, Wittgenstein and Popper did have an important trait in common: their "sheer awfulness," as the authors put it, with slight understatement.

Fighting talk from the young German, although to say she had the game to back it up was a slight understatement.

Now, to say that we were excited by this news would be a slight understatement - this was our chance to be on the show that had been forming our whole musical outlook for four years.

To say Inspector Söze will fail you for the slightest hint of an infraction is understatement.

Jeremy Irons, who has made a career of skilled understatement, bellows and thunders at the slightest provocation as Profion, the chief baddie.

The New York Times said: 'Irons seems to be making up for several decades of skilled understatement by bellowing and thundering at the slightest provocation.' What he says 'I haven't wanted to play the Charles Ryder type of Englishman all the time.

Short in stature and slight of build, the 62-year-old is a master of understatement who would be the first to admit he stumbled into high office by accident and says he prizes intelligence over hard work.

In these wines, Charles Massoud, with contributions from his son Kareem, expresses his penchant for understatement, especially in the 2001 chardonnay, which makes only a slight obeisance to California's woody style.