For example, examples of understatement can be found in the Old English epics like Beowulf as well as Ancient Greek texts by Homer. Sometimes authors use understatement for humorous reasons, though more often it is a technique for minimizing one thing thereby emphasizing another.
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By no means is Employee Appreciation Day meant to be this one day to thank people or this one day to bring in doughnuts, he explains. But I did want to have one day where we could call attention to the topic and have conversations about its importance.