Word: understatedness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Flaccid tomato sauce and pricey beer aside, Cambridge, 1 is a very welcome addition to the Harvard Square scene. When you think about it, it’s upsetting that other places cannot follow their simple recipe for success. No real culinary rocket science is going on in the kitchen...
Residents know what they want but, by comparison with other Cambridge advocacy, the effort in Agassiz is an understated one.
Pitkin became so identified with the Harvard struggle that his campaign for city council last fall—a deliberately understated effort that began late—came within 59 votes of defeating an incumbent councillor.
Describing a loud and contentious meeting about the Sackler-Fogg bridge proposal in his typical understated manner, Pitkin says the issue “stirred people up.”
Möring’s prose style is understated; the reader continually discovers the almost imperceptible threads that tie the characters to their own histories and to each other. As David recalls his father’s past, it becomes clear that this past is intimately connected to David?...