Word: understatedness
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Greenspan often flashes an understated sense of humor and irony. At a TIME Board of Economists meeting in 1984, for example, he talked about the need for political leaders to hammer out a federal budget compromise behind closed doors. Said he: "The old smoke-filled room probably will have to...
The South Korean leader made his long-awaited choice of a successor before a dinner at Blue House, the presidential residence, attended by the 29-member central executive committee of the D.J.P. Though party officials burst into cheers, the President's own praise of his designated successor was understated. Chun...
The statement proved correct, though incredibly understated. For the 2185 candidates for Harvard degrees who graduated that day were sent into the world with a message from the country's top diplomat that has had powerful implications on the shape of international relations until the present day. It is appropriate...
Commerce Department analysts cautioned against reading too much into the improvement between February and March, noting that many imports counted in February were actually received in January--suggesting that February's $15.1 billion deficit may have been over-stated and January's $12.3 billion deficit understated.
PERCY HAS been called "our cool Dostoevsky," and the worst thing The Thanatos Syndrome reveals about him, I think, is that he isn't half as "cool" as he once was. That moniker's an oxymoron, by the way. Dostoevsky was never "cool"; his passion propelled him. But it's...