Sentence examples for softly understated from inspiring English sources

As their limbs hinge and unfurl, there is a palpable sense of discovery through movement in the hushed world created by Mr. Gibson's chiming music and Jared Klein's softly understated lighting design.

At the edge of a pond, the first turtle of another spring had found its log and clambered aboard - its tiny head and feet outstretched to catch the sunshine and the softly understated markings of its shell as lovely as anything else in the woods or sky.

Roomba's stylish, softly lit, understated decor lets the food do the talking.

Aged 74, dressed down in jeans and a white shirt, softly spoken and understated to a fault, he might be taken for a retired businessman, a solicitor or perhaps the architect he was training to be until a career as Pink Floyd's drummer intervened.

The first outfit set the new tone: A leather varsity jacket topped by big silver button closures and paired with a softly pleated skirt communicated an understated luxury.

But while he might earn around US$12m £7.5mm) a year playing for the Bulls, he remains a softly spoken, intelligent and surprisingly understated man.

Her intonation was gloriously understated, a low apocalyptic growl, softly escalating in pace and intensity as the end-of-days war being played out in the skies above Kansas moved to its conclusion.

It was an understated summation, falling on ears as softly as a drop shot on the court.

Last season's flared trousers and long tunic silhouette had evolved into longer line cardigans and kick flared, crinkled silk trousers, but apart from shots of citrine and lilac, the colour palette was more subdued and earthy than autumn/winter with khaki, sage, muddy pink and mushroom setting an understated, or as Bailey described it, "softly romantic" tone.

Softly spoken and talking through an interpretor, the designer is as understated in his answers.

Tangle Formations and Infinite Orbit are terrific tunes, and the elementally softly rocking Landing Cliffs makes a spectacularly pretty climax to another beautifully understated epic.