Sentence examples similar to understated mockery from inspiring English sources

Like Ms. Mastretta, Cati is a reporter, and her strength as a narrator lies in her understated descriptions of Mexico's social ills, which are suffused with mockery of ruling-class hypocrisy.

A small turquoise faience baboon, 8.8 centimeters high, is a masterpiece of understated irony, so discreetly wielded that one cannot be absolutely sure that mockery was intended.

Such mockery vastly understates the opposition.

Ms. Molaskey, who appeared with her husband in the Broadway musical "Dream," shares his gift for understated humor, and her version of Dave Frishberg's "Quality Time," a withering spoof of urbane yuppie argot, captured just the right attitude of good-humored mockery.

Be understated.

More understated.

Some understated lovemaking.

Quiet and understated.

Marines are understated.

"I'm really understated.

I probably understated it.