understatement

With characteristic understatement she tells Barron’s, “We had some conversations about it.”

That's an understatement if the success of Harper Lee's Pulitzer-prize winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird is anything to go by.

To say junior running back Ceasar Reyes of Garfield High put his team on his back with a little help from his blockers would be an understatement.

“It was not hard for us to get bookings in the types of places we played,” Mr. Shearer says in a probable understatement.

For an institution normally given to understatement, this is the equivalent of setting its hair on fire.