With typical understatement, this plan is referred to as "one perfect act" and culminates in "that day the universe was reborn."

"It takes an hour-and-a-half," the driver told us with typical Jamaican understatement.

As we headed for the aircraft, Arthur said with typical understatement: "I'm glad you had a bit of sport."

With typical American understatement, he vowed that right and justice would become the predominant and controlling force in the world.

"I felt like I played pretty darn good," said Couples with typical understatement.

The events of the day, he recalls with typical understatement, came as "quite a surprise."

And very near the end there is a family tragedy that Elaine describes with her typical understatement, yet it seems jammed into the novel.

When asked why, the commissioner replied with typical understatement, "Because he's a nice man with an interesting, broad, fascinating background."

Fair, he said, in the typical deprecating understatement that has characterized flyfishermen for two hundred years.

In typical understatement, he added, "We found that the port bow had a major structural problem and was starting to work itself off."