Sentence examples for understated intensity from inspiring English sources

Each rediscovered song has the distinctive charm and understated intensity that made Porter famous.

Playing Buddy Amaral, a swaggering, gregarious advertising executive recovering from alcoholism, Mr. Affleck nearly matches Ms. Paltrow in the understated intensity and exquisite detail of his performance.

The German actor Ulrich Tukur brings an understated intensity and psychological depth to the title role of "John Rabe," a sweeping historical film that exalts a largely unsung real-life hero who risked his life to do the right thing.

Most often they mention a charged quality that Mr. Olyphant shares with the character, an understated intensity that animated previous projects like "Deadwood" but has "reached its sort of apotheosis in Raylan," said Mr. Landgraf, who first proposed him for "Justified".

He's definitely taken in a lot of John Coltrane's "Ballads" album, a lesson in understated intensity; he's probably spent time thinking about how Joe Lovano and Charles Lloyd and Mark Turner play slow songs, finding pathos and abstraction in them, giving the upper register as much attention as the lower, or more.

Fever Dream has a similarly understated, eerie intensity, and Bernard Butler's hazy, Isley Brothers-like guitar playing is again ever-present, as Watt sticks with what he calls "folk-jazz and distorted, strings-bent rock".

As absorbing and replete with character and incident as a 19th-century novel, it also glows with understated visual intensity and moves with the sweep and patience of a symphony.

But despite the number of items included, the editing and neat organization cause the show to feel underpopulated and thereby understate the intensity of Mr. Boas's passion.

To his credit, Nordhaus opened his books to other economists for inspection, which led to a slew of principled criticism that he was understating the intensity of economic impacts.

The teachers in Los Angeles who write to The Times — and I may be understating the intensity of their views here — are no fans of John Deasy.

But Mr. O'Neill's performance holds the attention fast with its understated, almost offhand intensity.