Sentence examples for understated quality from inspiring English sources
That understated quality, colleagues said, drew Mr. Romney to him.
The logo had to be discreet, creating a feeling of understated quality.
Both his men's wear and women's wear boutiques feature the kind of understated quality brands that are favored by art collectors and gallery owners.
His best work – Letters From Iwo Jima, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Unforgiven – all share an understated quality that means the emotional impact of his stories rings authentic.
(Think of the cutaway ship set in "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou".) There is a deadpan, understated quality to his performers that also suggests puppetry, and he shows a stubborn reluctance to let story take precedence over style.
Aalto's buildings and furniture share the understated quality of Swedish and Danish design, but they're different, wilder: the copper porch lamps on the nearby Rautatlo Building, for example, protrude with un-Scandinavian bulbousness.
Price favored the ephemeral gesture over the monumental flourish, and Gehry's design for the exhibition follows a similar path, sensitively emphasizing the artist's achievements while paying tribute to the understated qualities of his work.
That's probably one of the most understated qualities of a [good] leader.
To be truly beautiful, it is the understated qualities of beauty which are sustaining.
As it turns out, Mr. Jobs may well have understated the quality of the iPhone Web experience.
The teen-aged Fonteyn stepped into the light, and over the next three decades her simplicity, lyricism, and understated emotionalism — qualities nursed in her by the great choreographer Frederick Ashton — came to represent the English style in classical dance.
