Sentence examples for understatement too from inspiring English sources

That's quite an understatement too.

At times, he takes understatement too far, as when he mentions the occasional shrillness of Hitler's oratory.

Everything is understatement here, because to speak too loudly, too forcefully, too vividly, too painstakingly of all of this would be yet another kind of abomination – or even hubris.

And, he added with characteristic understatement, "it's great, too, that nobody died".

Understatement has its uses too, so this morning's report on the event of last night will begin with the casual notation that it was a great show.

When Rosa tells Yancy about one of her post-mortems, on a man with a clarinet wedged up his colon — though he was killed by an oboist who shot him in the head — Yancy's rejoinder is a model of understatement: "Shakespeare was born too soon".

Early talk around the production car, which Mercedes recently previewed online, has been similarly glowing, with Road & Track writing that "all the hotness of the concept has made the production cut" and TopGear.com mustering, in classic understatement: "doesn't look too shabby, does it?" Yet keen eyes will spot some significant changes.

No matter what some of us think of Ernest Hemingway — his all too imitable blunt-understatement style, his unfashionably macho fascination with death and killing — we have to admit that the power of his language has aged remarkably well in the 48 years since his death.

Epic is too much of an understatement to describe this final scene.

They also appreciate understatement.

When it comes to early music — and surely early dance too — that is a gross understatement.