Mr. Penn and Mr. Nicholson (in a brilliant, understated performance) plumb the soul of this lonely, brooding protagonist whose mood is echoed by the ominously beautiful Western landscape.
Rooney's uncharacteristically understated performance is brilliant.
Rudd is a master at understated goofiness and brilliant at conveying optimistic vacancy.
Brilliant and understated, urbane, witty, compassionate, composed, quietly fuelled by an idealism born of the legacy of civil rights America in conflict with the old white-nationalist America, Barack Obama is a unique human being and has been a unique president.
Stage right is the newly returned singer and keyboard player Christine McVie, a brilliant and very understated songwriter, whose career history goes back to the time she spent as an anomalous member of the English blues-rock band Chicken Shack.
Two beautiful paper collages from the 1960's, "Black-White Planes" and "Inner Workings," although very small, stand out for their brilliant orchestrations of forms and understated color.
The couple proved brilliant opposites, she exuberant, he understated but now enormously cheered up: happy, too, as a benign stepfather to her two children.
His understated use of mystery and intrigue is brilliant and the album slowly knits into a disquieting magical mystery tour, albeit one with an optimistic undercurrent as society is forced to start again from scratch via small communities.
HTC's marketing has been rather understated at times — typified by its 'quietly brilliant' slogan.
Receiver Plaxico Burress, whose play has often been brilliant and whose words had been relentlessly understated, glibly predicted a Giants victory, and even a score: 23-17.
