【多选题】Which sentences use the rhetorical device of understatement?
A.
fading fast, over the hill, out to pasture, down the drain, finished, out of date.
B.
For the most part the elderly struggle to exist in an inhospitable world.
C.
Voluntary hospitals are well known for dumping the “Medicare patient” into municipal hospitals…
D.
This feature objectivity is nothing less than the editor’s abdication of responsibility and is just as erous as the long and subtle processing of fact to fit a policy that characterizes certain weekly magazines.