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In this harmonically very unpretentious movement the composer achieves genuine poetry through understatement and delicate sculpting, especially of the sinuous line for solo alto.
To say that the object permanence literature is an unwieldy one is something of an understatement.
Otherwise, the editors' claim is that 'it can be used for a wider range of purposes than most conventional grammars', is something of an understatement.
Most readers of the book will be convinced that this is a clear understatement.
To say that they were lucky is somewhat of an understatement!
To brand such "treatment" as subhuman is an understatement.
Many of the examples involve irony, sarcasm, satire, understatement, or hyperbole, requiring the listener to figure out what the nonliteral intention of the speaker is.
To say that it mediated action between construction and autonomy is an understatement and depends too much on the ambiguous definition of mediation.
To call this 'the right man in the right place' is surely going to the extremes of understatement.
This qualification was an understatement: the film is utterly depressing.
Kearney's note that "to raise these points is to recognise that there were inevitable political overtones to our conference" (251) is surely an understatement.
This seems rather an understatement.
They tried to correct the systematic understatement of the projected tax subsidies, but were not able to make all of the necessary corrections because of lack of data.
Hickson summarised the findings with the cautious understatement that even among families who had suffered serious losses, money may not be the only motivation for filing suit.
It is an understatement to say that the confusion and conflict that the problems will create are a lawyer's paradise.
