Benioff and Weiss are both experienced writers who've worked on everything from Troy to The Kite Runner; they're an understated, but focused pair who've been friends since studying Irish literature at Trinity College, Dublin.
She spares us narration but relies on the compelling power of the women's own anecdotes -- as refreshingly understated and focused as their own attitude towards their triumph -- and lets her subjects tell the story from their first hand account.
It is an understated gem, focusing on a loner -- a train-obsessed dwarf -- who inherits an abandoned railway depot in rural New Jersey.
This sometimes excruciating curiosity propels us along; meanwhile, Ishiguro's careful, understated narration focuses on the way young people make a life out of whatever is on offer.
Mr. Fleisher is anything but flashy: understated, rather, and focused on simply getting the music across, and examining how it is all put together.
Hillier's understated worldview is focussed, she writes, on "nature manicured, controlled, and contained".
Yet unlike, say, Ava Duverney's Martin Luther King biopic, Selma, Loving is a consciously understated film, which focuses on the domestic fallout rather than the courtroom and soapbox fireworks.
In fact, he understated the case, by focusing only on financial confidence.
The beauty of this focused, crisp and understated writing lies in a complex irony that allows the reader insights denied to Edward.
The C.P.I. may very well be understating inflation, but his research focused on changes in the inflation rate rather than its absolute level.
