Word: understatedness
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The film is well acted, and Duvall and Jones generate some genuine, tastefully understated chemistry without slipping into sloppy sentiment. Another plus is Irma Hall, who is wonderfully enjoyable as the testy, domineering, but open-minded and warmhearted Aunt T., the sister of Earl and Ray's dead mother. But...
After the ceremony, Washington's relief was palpable. "This was an immensely difficult negotiation," was the understated verdict of U.S. special Middle East coordinator Dennis Ross, the diplomatic midwife whose intensified ministrations during the past several months included a three-hour session by telephone hours before the draft agreement was...
Moreover, Allen in his understated way was voicing some stunning heresies--stunning for an AT&T head anyway. The company had long been almost synonymous with Big Business, and for more than a century a paragon of vertical integration--the tying together of suppliers and customers into one company. But...
It shows. Daydream is a refreshingly understated piece of work and her best album yet. Her vocals are strong and serenely passionate. Her lyrics (she co-writes nearly all her songs) are smarter, and her rhymes more artful and flowing: "As we drifted to another place in time/ And the...
Luckily, the setting for Seven (the title is the only understated thing about the picture) is an anonymous metropolis where it rains all the time and no one seems to have paid his light bill. The murk hides some (but not all) of the grisly details. Murk is also the...