Sentence examples for understated power from inspiring English sources

Part of the fringe, it's performed with an understated power by Clifford herself in flickering candlelight.

Tóibín's tender portrait of one woman's experience of emigration has an understated power.

The mood, like the colours, is unrelentingly grey, but the book has an understated power.

Rappleye evokes the suffering of the enslaved Africans before and during the voyage with understated power.

For those inside the intelligence service, like George Smiley, played with delicacy and understated power by Gary Oldman, knowledge is power, but so too is fear.

Judi Dench's M in the Bond films of the late 90s and early 2000s gave us a masterclass in understated power.

Characterizing Facebook or Google as powerful media organs – even the most powerful – actually understates their power.

Still, no one should overstate the power of business schools to instill ethicality while understating the power of parents, other role models and other institutions.

The Skin I Live In is Almodovar at the height of his powers, with its understated but powerful camera work, its use of massive paintings as décor and its depiction of multiple madness.

Well, maybe I'm understating the power of denial.

He also told us that in the long run we're all dead … But anyway, I think that both interests and ideology are a problem — and you shouldn't understate the power of bad ideas.