His understated Siegfried, whose smile always dies before it reaches his eyes, is lost amid the court's glitter, and bewildered by it: he sees freedom in Odette as much as she sees it in him, and desperately latches on.
"Of course they weren't happy," says the smiling, understated Mr Castellano.
Some of the features ramble on a bit, but otherwise this was an assured, nicely understated debut that made you smile.
In person Ms. Ephron — small and fine-boned with high cheeks and a toothy smile — had the same understated, though no less witty, style that she brought to the page.
But she brings an understated warmth to her performance, a slightly brittle smile betraying the anxiety Grace comes to feel as Arthur's recalcitrance begins to take a financial and emotional toll on the family.
I met him at the airport and accompanied him to the kitchen, where he got an understated British welcome: not so much as a wry smile of recognition, even though he hadn't been seen for two weeks.
"Bernie is very understated," Torre said, adding an observation about the shy smile by Williams on Saturday while the crowd cheered after he finally made an out on a groundout.
He is, actually, a delightful man, intelligent, understated, with a sharp sense of humour and a ready smile.
Wounded is a fine, understated book: the pithy dialogue and touching family dynamics will have you smiling, but it is Everett's unsettling, fiercely tangled moral issues that linger in the mind.
