To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.
I've always gone for the more understated look.
People that complete other people's vision are understated.
I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.
Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.
Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Gil: It's understated but elegant. That's what you always say. Helen: Cheap is cheap. That's what I always say.
Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.
I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.
Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated, or perhaps just older.
The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're ...
My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.
