Indeed, the author, through fear of being entirely discredited, has often rather understated his case.
Thomson has even understated the question, and that Black, instead of first teaching his theory in 1761, taught it three years earlier, that is, six years before the decisive experiments were made.
The essence of Zen aesthetic theory is evoked throughout its haunting poetry, its understated but intense style of acting, its delicately carved masks, and its mournful music and songs.
Rikyu predictably found the Rikka style entirely too lavish for understated wabi aesthetics and introduced a new style known as Nageire, which was informal and spontaneous in appearance.
Its understated authority is the product of a long development of such Zen ideals as simplicity, starkness, austerity, and spareness.
In Western terms, if King Lear were a shite, he would speak in understated terms of the darkness of the heath rather than chronicle his own anguish.
Quiet, understated and sympathetic story of feminine relationships in a school setting--but without the melodramatic atmosphere of tragedy which usually surrounds such stories.
Some authorities consider subtle and understated lesbianism to be the mysterious motivations behind the scenes of this curious psychological ghost story of the struggle of a governess for the souls of two young children.
The man permitted himself a smile of the pleasure we Americans all feel at having a thing understated in that way.
I am half mad," says she, and any one who reads the letter will conclude that she understated her mental condition.
But in any case, whatever may have been her physical dimensions, they were not understated by the crowd who gave vent to their aversion in this and in many other deplorable ways.
