Sentence examples for understatement that from inspiring English sources
What an understatement that proved to be!
From being an understatement that now looks like an exaggeration.
It also has a humility and John Bull understatement that makes it endearing and memorable.
Little did we realise how elaborate an understatement that would turn out to be.
Towles's solution is wry understatement that extends to a series of historical footnotes.
"Pretty thing," I said, and I can remember now what a deliberate understatement that was.
It is also done with that masterly understatement that is Rattigan's signature.
To say it was entertaining is an understatement that may not be beaten in the remainder of 2006.
"Well, we won this," Mr. Medgyssey told supporters tonight, with the slight understatement that is becoming his political trademark.
He has a talent for understatement that made him a highly effective if maddening spokesman for the administration when he was in office.
Ashley, meanwhile, was coping with the long faces of her husband's doctors and the prospect, as she puts it, with fine English understatement, that "This could be it".
