Word: understatedness
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But while hidden from the public view, Winwood continued to be as involved with music as ever, exploring and experimenting with musical forms from around the world. Now, breaking his silence, an understated and unusual resurfacing appears to be in progress. For example, Winwood turned up as a sideman on...
Compare this with the sensitively understated Gilman as prim Miss Prism, Cecily's spinster governess. Severe in a herringbone suit, her frizzy yellow hair drawn back tightly in a bun, Gilman stands in her characteristic pose, hands clasped in front of her, and expresses dismay, skepticism and repressed lust with...
A minor work, certainly, but luminous still, Satyajit Ray's The Middleman concerns compromise, the collapse of a class, the exigencies of desperation. For such large themes, the story itself is notably modest. A young college graduate who lives in Calcutta with his father, brother and sister cannot find...
Most of the time, Joan Foster is the quietly unremarkable wife of a humorless student radical. In odd stolen hours, she plays mistress to an avant-garde artist who serves as a kind of latter-day Mad Hatter. From both husband and lover, Joan cleverly hides two secret shames: the...
At Lockheed, where a new management is now in charge, Board Chairman Robert Haack said only that he was "saddened" by the revelations in The Hague. That response seemed remarkably understated, for as the Dutch braced themselves for a televised parliamentary debate this week on the Bernhard report, they faced...