Understated in example sentence

But the dead-pan gallows humor, elegantly understated, flat and utterly unadorned, subtle and evanescent, evaporates somewhere in the middle, as breezy absurdity succumbs to a grinding Hallmark-greeting-card, art-house sermon on the Meaning of Life, to What IT Is All About.

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And that means it's harder for us to pay attention to the quiet, the subtle, the understated.

And number two, obviously, this dependence upon the Lesters is going to produce a subtle, understated, we could say camouflaged, bending to keep the Lesters happy.

And number two, obviously, this dependence upon the funders produces a subtle, understated, camouflaged bending to keep the funders happy.

Such understated power here, in these tottering dancers who exert stupendous effort on tasks most view as insignificant.

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