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Understatement in sentence

118 examples of Understatement in a sentence

To say that Sean Young's performance as a so-called district attorney is wooden is a gross understatement.
To say that the ending was CORNY and PREDICTABLE would almost be an understatement...
So when I started watching the show... to say I was disappointed by the end result is an understatement.
To say the plot was unbelievable is some big understatement.
The exclamation point in the title is appropriate, albeit an understatement.
To call it campy would be a huge understatement.
To say I was disappointed is the understatement of the year.
To say Funky Forest: The First Contact is a bad movie is an understatement of incredible proportions.
To say it was one of the most inept and insipid scripts I'd ever read would be a bold understatement.
To say I was disappointed would be something of an understatement.
To say that the real SF soldiers I knew were offended by this crap is an understatement.
But saying this movie was a disappointment is an understatement.
Man the word bad is an understatement.
To say that this is a bizarre movie is an understatement.
To say the young college buddies succeeded in bringing hope and awareness to this dreaded disease would be an understatement.
(This is what was known as British understatement.)
It is an understatement to say that the performances are all Outstanding.
Anne Reid, previously best known in the UK for her TV roles including 'Dinnerladies' (a Victoria Wood scripted series on in-company catering workers, if you're wondering), gives a performance of finely judged understatement as May, a late-60s bereaved mother of two chattering class adults in an inner-London borough.
What another reviewer called lack of character development, I call understatement.
Information is exchanged with naturalistic understatement.
Seriously, this is no understatement.
The Urdu-speaking milieux at the time of Pakeezah were masters of understatement and how the dialogue conveys the subtleties of the age!
It also means that it is very deliberately paced, and that the film will work best for horror mavens who are big fans of understatement.
To say it's not as good as the first is so far beyond an understatement it's ridiculous.
The movie is a Canadian exploitation flick, and to say that it is technically awful is a real understatement.
Well...to say things went wrong would be an understatement.
To say that the new I've got a secret sucks, is the biggest understatement I have EVER heard.
I know this phrase is used a lot, but now it's an understatement.
To say that it is a belated addition to its genre is an understatement.
To refer to this "Devil's Child" as being just mediocre would be a huge understatement, as this is a totally unoriginal and amateurish attempt to tell a religious horror story in the tradition of "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Omen".
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