Word: understatedness
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"A space-shuttle contingency has been declared," the voice of Mission Control intoned in the arid argot of the space agency. It was an echo of the understated announcement 17 years ago, when the shuttle Challenger consumed itself in an awful fireball, and the stunned NASA narrator was left to...
Destroying this organization is simply all he can do. Marvin casts the role with just the right note of understated anger, frustration and, most of all, confusion. He incarnates the tragic figure overwhelmed by the consequences of his violent life, assuming the morally beleaguered qualities of a late Clint Eastwood...
Dole succeeds in containing the mirth that rises behind his eyes and tugs at the corners of his mouth. He gives an understated smile and not the Kansas yuk that helped sink the Ford-Dole ticket in 1976. He joked so much then that people did not think he was...
Paterno had warned, "John's not a beauty to watch," but the coach understated it. How Shaffer could have started 54 straight victories became the question of the moment, but an answer was suggested following the game by the brave way he stood up to his first loss since seventh...
Every evening at 8, one of the French TV networks, Antenne 2, begins its news broadcast in the same way. Eight close-up pictures, framed in lurid yellow appear on the screen, one after the other. As they go by, the anchorman says in an understated voice, "Tonight the French...