Sentence examples similar to understated conversation from inspiring English sources
Others are self-consciously understated ("A Conversation") or overstated ("After Eight Long Years, Galileo Challenges Fate").
To those who knew him, he was a warm, gentle soul (though occasionally volatile as well), generally as understated in conversation as he was leonine at the keyboard.
All Americans would benefit if political leaders in both parties set aside bravado, and insisted on a thoughtful, understated foreign policy conversation.
Usually the humor is more understated, a natural part of the narrative conversation — for instance, about the difficulty of buying alcoholic beverages in Boulder: "The liquor stores are gigantic Target-size nightmares.
Below are edited excerpts from the conversation: To understate things, there's a big difference between public expressions of Christianity in Britain, where your book was first published, and in the United States.
By then Mr. Weissman's innate modesty had been leavened with a lot of understated self-confidence, and after a time he felt, as he put it in our recent conversation, "that I could do as well or better".
He hired the veteran cinematographer Bill Butler, who had shot "Jaws" and "The Conversation," to give the film "an old studio look," as Mr. Paxton puts it -- understated rather than lurid.
Over and over again, in all of my conversations, I hear variations of this same impulse -- something quieter, subtler and more understated than conventional patriotism -- this desire to "go back and do something".
