Sentence examples for understated portrayal from inspiring English sources

Mr. Goggins grounded the pulpy twists with an understated portrayal that mixed the series' florid dialogue with an unhinged ambiguity.

In Mr. Cheadle's magnificent, understated portrayal, Mr. Rusesabagina is a watchful man who understands the workings of power.

What lends Paul's metamorphosis some credibility is Mr. Dillahunt's understated portrayal of a character whose seething sense of injustice has always been there.

Alan Rickman gives a harrowingly understated portrayal of the evil Judge Turpin, which comes through in his literate, dry and menacing singing.

Clearly, what has often been described as Mr. Caine's deadpan expression served him well in his understated portrayal of Dr. Larch.

It's the one false step in an evening that ends with Richard Burkhard's deliciously understated portrayal of the crafty, eponymous Gianni Schicchi, supported by a riotously venal collection of family members.

In an understated virtuoso portrayal, Meierhans renders Irene alternately sensual and spiritual in confronting extreme danger.

The Oscar-winning actor and stand-up comedian Robin Williams, whose range extended from manic mimicry to understated character portrayals, was found dead in his California home on Monday.

Veteran star Amitabh Bachchan, in a portrayal of understated power, plays the resolute president of a private Bhopal college who has led the institution to the very top rank while pursuing an admissions policy based on academic qualification regardless of caste.

When the portrayal of suffering is more understated, I feel it is also more powerful.

But though his post -- the first for his new site, JimRomenesko.com -- is understated, it is nevertheless devastating in its portrayal of how his editor, Julie Moos, tried to conflate his aggregation practices into a scandal over Romenesko's supposed lack of ethics.