Sentence examples for trademark understatement from inspiring English sources
"I'm riding a pretty good wave right now," Dickey said with trademark understatement.
"Seventy-five points with eight games to go is not bad," said Clough with trademark understatement.
David Cameron had taken part in the meeting which Italian and British diplomatic sources described, perhaps with trademark understatement, as "frank".
No one had seen it close-up, but it had been spotted from a plane and sized at 4m. "That's big," someone told us, with trademark Aussie understatement.
If confronting shameful episodes in history threatens our identity – as some have complained – it's certainly leaving our trademark art of understatement intact.
"Tonight is a particular honor for me because, let's face it, my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely," he began, his trademark self-effacing humor and understatement already firmly cast.
"Well, we won this," Mr. Medgyssey told supporters tonight, with the slight understatement that is becoming his political trademark.
You work for those who want to return my country to communism!" Fortunately, I was aware before this encounter that understatements and mincing words were not Klaus' trademark.
But when Judge Richard May of Britain began presiding over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic today, he exhibited the trademark he is most known for: sobriety, often wrapped in understatement.
On screen, however, impartiality was his trademark, an impression amplified by his deliberately slow delivery and taste for understatement.
