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understatement
«A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.»
«Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.»
«Being sixty in Washington sometimes feels like having had one year's experience sixty times. However, age can confer a certain calm about the passing circus, a preference for understatement and for people with low emotional metabolisms.»
Author: George F. Will
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confer, metabolism, metabolisms, one year, preference, understatement, understatements
«The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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description, descriptions, understatement, understatements