Understated irony, ever so faintly tinged with melancholy, was his style.

Understated valor is probably common to the British and English self-perception.

Understated minimalism is selling too well to dismiss.

Understated luxury, and privacy, in a tranquil spot on the north-west coast.

Understated shield logo on the driver's door.

Understated elegance, she reflected, admiring its sober dark grey and the soft leather of its interior.

Understated jewelry.

Understated opulence with an Ecuadorean twist.

Understated excellence.

Understated one-liners, in the Jack Handey mode, pervade the site.

Understated Style They responded with the same understatement and deliberateness that characterized, and perhaps helped them win, their case.

Atmosphere: Understated elegance, comfortable.

Understated elegance and glamour are the hallmarks of Nicolas Felizola's design.

"Understated elegance," David said.

Understated battleship gray, accented with a red lever, black vinyl curtains and colored lights designating party affiliation in primary elections.

Understated elegance characterized much of what she collected, including the show's earliest object, a delicately scalloped 1550 bowl the size and shape of half a grapefruit.

Lågmälda göranden (Understated Activities) (2003)

Understated Determination His steel showed again this week in his determination not to yield, or seem to yield, to Mr. Jackson.

Understated Style The statement Justice White issued today through the Court's public information office was typical of his dry, understated style.

ATMOSPHERE: Understated modern French cuisine served in an elegantly renovated town-house dining room.

B3 An Understated Anniversary The 70th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition passed with little fanfare at bars around New York.

Understated keeper, Stekelenburg, in the tradition of Dutch keepers dating all the way back to Raimond van der Gouw.

"Baseball Is Just Baseball": The Understated Ichiro: An Unauthorized Collection Compiled by David Shields.

Level Called Understated Advocates for the poor said the study might understate the amount of poverty because it did not include groups like the homeless and the elderly, which include large numbers of poor people.

EXCELLENT ATMOSPHERE - Understated elegance in an intimate dining room with touches of gleaming crystal, and color from bouquets of full-blown roses.

To say he took it all well would be understating.

I'm not going to allow him to understate what little evidence we have.

If anything, the article understated the extent of the problem.

Understated as the car is, some people stopped for a closer look.

To understate the problem, this will not be an easy sell.

Commission officials said they believed the 41 percent figure was understated.

His impact on the team was dramatic and cannot be understated.

For another, official reports that only 9 people were killed seemed understated.

To use the word lose was to understate it, though.

There is a photograph by him, typically understated, of his mother just before she died.

Many times companies understate the size of the investment they will be making.

China is by no means the only country whose output has been understated.

That does not hold true for people who understate income by 25 percent or more.

To say that I was a quick study would be to understate the case.

I think the problem is you're understating the evidence by a factor of 100,000.

As one of the neglected, I probably understate the case.

You are certainly correct but perhaps understated the building's condition.

This understated and sure film is set in a world of survivors.

Even those figures understate the impact of the industry on the local economy, however.

In fact, he may be understating the magnitude of the problem.

But even that understated the damage as thousands of workers simply left town.

So Arthur had understated what he was going to have for dinner.

"Perhaps I have understated the importance of this person," he said.

The second charge was that he understated his income on a 1994 tax return.

To call her experience a nightmare would be to understate what she went through.