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Example sentences for: understated

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The understated simplicity — and lack of human images — of Islamic design fades completely and is replaced with an ornate blaze of color within which human images in either paint, stone, or wood abound.
On the other hand, several other people noted, given that people spend a lot more time at work than they do on vacation , on a per-hour basis vacation dangers may be understated by the data in the previous item.
As a result, they greatly understated the risk to which they were exposing both their investors and those who lent them money.
But they also don’t seem to mind when the tranquillity of a Zen temple rock garden is shattered by recorded announcements blaring from loudspeakers parroting the information already contained in the leaflets provided at the ticket office; when heavy-metal pop music loudly emanates from the radio of the middle-aged owner of a corner grocery store; and when parks, gardens, and hallowed temples are ringed by garish souvenir shops whose shelves display both the tastefully understated and the hideously kitsch.
"As literate and understated as one could expect" from Hollywood, says the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan.