Suddenly, he is showing up in all the right places and hitting all the right notes, that former boyish entitlement having matured into understated comedic bite.
When it was first released in 1941, Ellen Buell of The New York Times called the book "one of the merriest we have had in a long time", praising the understated comedic aspect of the procession down Beacon Street, as well as McCloskey's "fine large pictures" which simultaneously demonstrate "economy of line" and "wealth of detail".
Think Eddie Murphy on "Saturday Night Live," or the aforementioned Shawn and Marlon Wayans comedy, to name a couple of contemporary comedic examples.
For a comedic example of how we might see things if there were no continuity field, watch the commercial for MIO squirt juice.
It is an understated example of the artificial ruin style, visible in New York City at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic Theater.
Despite the cool reserve of Mr. Grant's film persona, there remained an understated physicality to his comedic approach.
Merrill Lynch, for example, understated its risky mortgage holdings by hundreds of billions of dollars.
If anything, Feynman's example understated the mystery of the Rashomon effect, which is actually twofold.
This black and white creation by Salvatore Ferragamo is a perfect example of understated chic.
But then there is that goofy, understated, stoic sense of humor (for example, former Con Edison employees are known as ex-Cons), which is itself a version of defense.
The correct leverage effect in the example is understated by a factor of 10.
