Sentence examples for understated stories from inspiring English sources

In the thirties and forties, the magazine favored understated stories in a broadly Chekhovian mode; these quintessential New Yorker stories, Lionel Trilling wrote, were islands of "moral intensity" in an otherwise "genial" magazine.

"New Music," one of the collection's most understated stories, may seem at first to be about a woman who becomes Thomas Tallis's biographer because he was the second-best English composer of his age.

It's a very British, understated story, told in a very British, understated way.

Not every child will drop anchor long enough to savor this resolutely understated story, but those who do will be glad they did.

But curious because Ms. Johansson also appeared in Sofia Coppola's film "Lost in Translation," a similarly understated story of affection, even love, that is never consummated.

And Andrew Garfield's beachside yell of pain towards the end of the trailer seems a note too emotive for such an understated story.

Mr. Mariage, who was himself a newspaper photographer and has a documentarian's eye for forthright detail, succeeds in turning this laconic, humorously understated story into a sharp critique of empty values and pointless striving.

But my favourite from this fertile time is A Most Peculiar Man, the understated story of a suicide that first appeared on Simon's little-heard 1965 solo debut The Paul Simon Songbook.

Now it's Gifford's turn to surprise: his new novel, WYOMING (Arcade, $19.95), is a tender and understated story that has none of the gleeful sadism or frenzied grotesqueries that have defined his earlier work.

Uncloak's merging of cybersecurity and blockchain follows the understated story about blockchain's history with Bitcoin.

It's a neat, understated story, well suited to Sean Baker's stripped-down style and the cast's naturalistic performances.