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Перевод: understatement

[существительное]
преуменьшение; замалчивание; сдержанное высказывание

Тезаурус:

1. Antidrama should not be confused with the studied understatement, the unrepentant modesty of the true gentleman, for this is a product of drama.
2. And for those determined enough to stand out from the crowd by virtue of understatement, that may well be enough.
3. To me, remembering the extraordinary deaths of Katharine and Primrose, in bed together with a copy of Trine's In Tune with the Infinite open between them, this seemed a masterly understatement.
4. Inter-war interior design depended on subtelty and understatement, neither of which are much valued in the running of a pub today.
5. As Martin Luther said, in what must be the theological understatement of all time, "The Holy Spirit is not a sceptic."
6. Later, with typical miner's understatement, he said that the experience had been "a bit frightening".
7. This was to prove a classic understatement.
8. Her taste, which had never been for understatement, influenced his, which had always been a little austere.
9. Understatement is most effective when in stark contrast with a highly charged force field.
10. "Ineffectual" is an understatement in the case of the EC's most powerful member.
11. She seeks out the host queen, and rides about on her back while she quietly performs, to quote Edward Wilson's artfully macabre understatement, "the one act for which she is uniquely specialized: slowly cutting off the head of her victim".
12. The Willses' modesty about their own achievements has amounted to selfdisparagement, and their preference for understatement has made some of them seem uncommunicative, especially at large gatherings, and has masked their underlying good humour and quiet sense of fun.
13. It has been "very disappointing", she says in a brave, and painful, understatement of her involvement with the business that tried to recreate Anita Roddick's success.