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Example sentences for: understatement

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Bosworth, the biographer of Diane Arbus and Montgomery Clift, "provides a vivid sense of upper-middle-class life in the early Cold War years, when prominent citizens suddenly turned their backs on colleagues such as Crum and called them Communist dupes," writes Kathy Deacon in the Village Voice . In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Lingeman says Bosworth "tells her elegiac story in a tone that is admirably restrained, in prose that conveys strong feeling by understatement."
British understatement set the universal standard for male elegance in 1800, and it's holding its own two centuries later.
Plus, it gives Duvall a splendid platform for impish understatement.
All told, the treaty is so much tougher than anything in the history of global arms control that to call it an important evolutionary step borders on understatement.
It would be an understatement to describe the Italians as sports enthusiasts, at least as far as spectator sports are concerned.