Sentence examples for tragic understatement from inspiring English sources

Alas, it was a tragic understatement.

Senator Byron Dorgan's description of the Pentagon's performance as "stunning incompetence" is an understatement for such tragic profiteering.

But instead of Kate McGarrigle's voice, with its reedy understatement that could be tartly matter of fact or openly heartsick, there were other approaches: Antony's tragic intensity (perfect for "Go Leave" and "I Cried for Us"), Ms. Jones's relaxed melancholy (in "Over the Hill"), Ms. Warren's contralto resolve (in "I Don't Know").

Massive understatement.

Just tragic".

Kinda tragic.

Hardly tragic.

Or tragic.

We have a clue in the beautiful understatement of Ozymandias, where even the grandiose fantasies of absolute power are granted their tincture of humanity, and of the tragic sense that must accompany the Romantic ideal.

That seemed an understatement.

Only understatement could.