Sentence examples for understated role from inspiring English sources

A sixth-year veteran, Lynch seemed content with his understated role for much of the game — and even afterward, when he declined to be interviewed.

He has strong support from George Costigan in the difficult, understated role as the friend, protector, perhaps admirer - and finally assassin.

But – and I realise this is tantamount to heresy – he is probably not the best actor in the world, for while no one can match him for kooky freakery, a straight and understated role like Kemp exposes his limitations.

Boycott strategies were publicly supported by Australia's only organisation of refugees and ex-detainees, RISE, and have been called for by those in the camps at Nauru and Manus Island, the hunger strikers at Christmas island and those at Villawood whose lead we follow, and whose resistance within the camps themselves has had a massively understated role in accounts of events around the Biennale.

Specialist palliative care social workers play a key, if understated role in end of life care, making key connections between service users' feelings and emotions and their social circumstances; between services and the community and, between the many different professionals involved in this essentially interdisciplinary service.

Organisms that live in and around reefs play an integral, often understated, role in drug development.

The independent counsel did, however, realistically underscore the strong indications that Mrs. Clinton had understated her role in dismissals.

She said the federal crash report was a "bitter pill," one that she believes understated the role of the fire in causing the crash.

"One Hour Photo," which stars Robin Williams in an unusually understated dramatic role, tells the story of Sy Parrish, a solitary clerk at a photo lab, who becomes obsessed by a suburban family after years of processing its film.

His next Oscar nomination was for an understated supporting role in Warren Beatty's Bugsy in 1991 and two years later, he gave one of the most powerful performances in Steven Spielberg's vital Holocaust drama.

Mr. Trump, for example, vastly understated his role, saying he "became very much less involved with the company" during years when he was actually chairman of the board and chief executive, and "was on the board in a very minority position" during years when he had been chairman.