Word: downplay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tried to downplay the game, make it not so emotional," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "We didn't want to play on emotion. We wanted to play on talent. Early on, we were a little too hyper. It's sort of expected, in front of 6000 people, playing for first place...
Nobody attempts to downplay the difficulties Gates will face at Harvard. But most, Painter among them, say the scholar is up to the task...
...great lengths to characterize the importance of Gaia, but where necessary he holds Lovelock to account. Lovelock was the first scientist to propose that chemical aerosols called CFCs might pose a threat to the ozone layer, but his faith in the restorative powers of Gaia led him to downplay the danger...
...Israel's antiaircraft defenses. Such unqualified U.S. support for Jerusalem makes Assad's alignment with Washington all the harder to sell at home. But at least one diplomat in Damascus believes Syrian authorities may be inflating their assessments of the domestic opposition to convince Washington of the need to downplay relations with Israel. Damascus has asserted that if Jerusalem gets involved in any conflagration in the region, it will quickly switch sides. Said a government official: "Against Israel, we will stand with Iraq...
...ideas from early Abstractionists in Pousette-Dart's thinking -- notions about transcendence and spirituality that filtered in from fin-de-siecle cult figures like Madame Blavatsky and Rudolf Steiner, and that had more impact on Mondrian and Kandinsky than all the established churches put together. The effect is to downplay nature in favor of culture. "Nature does not satisfy art," one finds in Pousette-Dart's copious notes, cited in the catalog, "but art satisfies nature. Nature is dumb, while art is conscious, articulate, triumphant." This aesthete's idealism sounds unduly high flown. What abstract painting really rivals, in point...