Sentence examples for sometimes understated from inspiring English sources

He seemed at one with Mr. Fray's probing and sometimes understated conception, reining in the orchestra as necessary.

If "Star Time" dealt with the spotlight, "Messing With the Blues" (Polydor, 1991) furnished a shadow history of Brown's career, concentrating on the sometimes understated, sometimes obscure R. & B. covers that padded his early albums and live sets.

This sidesteps the need to look at polls, which may be desirable both because of the ambiguity in the ballot language and because surveys in other states have sometimes understated the support for same-sex marriage bans.

Amid the cacophony, Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank, and Olli Rehn, the European economic commissioner, have spoken sensibly about the diagnosis, even if they have sometimes understated the need for surgery.

All have taken different routes to this point in their careers and have particular reasons for deciding to perfect the sometimes understated but often lyrical, insinuating instrument that is the cello.

The QC used his customary polite, sometimes understated, tone - but this was a criticism of politicians whom he said hadn't fully thought through some of the proposals announced in early September.

Ms. Gillibrand also chided the leaders for sometimes understating the gravity of some of the crimes before them, noting that one commander had told a victim that he believed her assailant had not "acted like a gentleman" but had not committed a crime.

(To be more precise, he co-designed the High Line with architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and plantsman and garden designer Piet Oudolf, but as Corner's role has sometimes been understated, it's fair if it's exaggerated now).

If Mr. Graf's performance sometimes seemed understated, you had to admire his decision to let the score tell its story directly, through its quietly rolling timpani thunder, its tense evocation of czarist troops firing on protesters and the subdued but palpable fury of its finale.

Sometimes Mason's understated precision is asked to bear more weight than it can handle, though.

The big challenge has been that at Georg Jensen, and often in Denmark, I feel there's this way of working in a very understated, sometimes humble, way.