Sentence examples for understated feeling from inspiring English sources

Detectorists has a particular understated feeling that feels specifically British – is this a type of comedy you are particularly drawn to or does it derive from your own experience?

And his manner — the music — was both firm and respectful, coolly confident and saturated with understated feeling.

But the qualities that undermined Mr. Kline's performance as Lear added a layer of affecting dignity and understated feeling to his Cyrano.

To start the program Mr. Schiff played Debussy's "Children's Corner" suite and, with understated feeling, Schumann's "Kinderszenen" ("Scenes From Childhood"), adding yet more miniatures to the 63 he performed in a sprawling, dazzling recital on Wednesday.

The script, by Cuaron and his son Jonas, "modulates the tension expertly," and Clooney and Bullock share a "tough-and-tender rapport [that] pulses with understated feeling".

The dramatic turns are understated — tone on tone — but the characters are nearly bursting with feeling.

"Cotton Mary" features the Merchant Ivory team's infamous undercurrent of understated emotion, feelings so modestly rendered that sometimes one is unsure if there is any emotion.

Mr. Shaath, understating his feelings, said Mr. Sharon's assessment of Mr. Arafat "did not suggest any feeling of partnership" and added that the Israelis did not seem willing to give Palestinians any credit for their efforts this week.

The term cool derives from what journalists perceived as an understated or subdued feeling in the music of Miles Davis, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Gerry Mulligan, Lennie Tristano, and others.

The logo had to be discreet, creating a feeling of understated quality.

A feeling of understated melancholy emanates from the picture, well in tune with the maxim.