With rather elegant understatement, he concedes it would have changed "the political calculus".

Mr. Varviso conducted, with elegant understatement, in the major opera houses of the world.

In his political life, Mr. Oppenheimer grounded his opposition to apartheid on humanitarian impulses, often bringing economic principles and a sort of elegant understatement to the argument.

But the elegant understatement of this production turns it into a livelier experiment, a fluent, gripping version of one of Chekhov's more elusive plays.

In keeping with the magazine's brand, the Economist's iPad app is a model of elegant understatement, offering digitised issues for £3.99 each or as part of a subscription.

Mr. Davis is best known for playing the baritone saxophone, but for the first half of the album he plays tenor with a rather elegant understatement.

Claire Bloom narrated the Shakespearean end of the evening with elegant understatement.

Service: The elegant understatement of tradition.

With elegant understatement, the prospectus also reports that the university's stake in Seragen "has from time to time been the subject of media attention."

Although the original director, W. Lee Wilder, was Billy Wilder's older brother, he doesn't seem to have shared the family gene for elegant understatement.