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Example sentences for: understatement

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But he manages to present politically unpalatable ideas with grace and understatement.
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."
Surely an entry for the understatement of the year.
To say that the record of Opel-designed cars on American highways has been disappointing would be an understatement.
It would be an understatement to describe the Italians as sports enthusiasts, at least as far as spectator sports are concerned.