Sentence examples for understated wisdom from inspiring English sources
If your thirst for Theroux somehow hasn't been sated by his contribution to our cover feature, this illustrated guide to the great man's best nuggets of understated wisdom should do the trick.
With the tiniest adjustments in timbre and phrasing, she conveys an understated mixture of wistfulness, wisdom and dry humor, capturing the fey, ironic joie de vivre of someone at once canny and eternally youthful in spirit.
In the hands of another writer these events might read like a hick town soap opera, but Mr. Haruf's understated prose, combined with his emotional wisdom and his easy affection for his characters turns these events into affecting drama.
It really was the oddest sensation; and the oddness was further compounded by what unspooled before me – a persistently quiet, understated, naturalistic murder mystery that, against all modern received wisdom, which largely holds that noise equals drama, still compelled.
To hear his wisdom makes you feel that the Welshman, with his understated persistence, would be an infinitely better leader for United than bombastic, vainglorious Van Gaal.
In a lucid, understated, wry and subtly subversive manner, "Sherry" questions much of the conventional wisdom about how the wines are made and how it should best be consumed.
This is a splendid, understated film, unsentimental and wholly without that kind of cynicism that passes for worldly wisdom.
Some understated lovemaking.
