Word: downplay
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...surprised a lot of people read their booksand specifically cited them," said Dufirston J.Neree, a Kennedy School student. "It shows anopen-mindedness of them, to try to at least seewhat people of different viewpoints have to say. Iwouldn't downplay that...
...plate fund raiser. It seems Adams managed to get herself and the First Lady booted from the stuffy club by gabbing on a cellular phone, rustling her bags and getting Hillary to spray Adams' incredibly unpleasant perfume, Gossip, in the air. The First Lady's spokeswoman tried to downplay the incident. Good luck...
...shrewish portrayal of Lady Macbeth. Her performance was, as Mandel points out, exquisite, but she deserved far more praise than Mandel gave her. To eliminate Colapinto from Mandel's list of quality elements of the show, to attack his work as "poor judgment or sheer incompetence," and to downplay Bishop's excellence, is wrong. Mandel is welcome to her opinion, but the mean-spirited tone of the article was both unfair and unnecessary; the highlighted quotes and headlines only helped Mandel blame any and all problems with the show on Colapinto. Many who read the review were bothered...
...stress--or downplay--the ridiculousness of the melodramatic excesses, and perhaps place them in a contemporary context, this production frames the dramatic action with a rather broad poke at the modern media fascination with violence and sensationalism (a la Natural Born Killers). Viewers with weak stomachs have little to fear, however: the visual representation of the violence and bloodshed is quite restrained, consisting mainly of several sparing patches of blood and one remarkably fake-looking severed hand. Perhaps as an appeal to the spirit of Halloween, a lot of the physical pain the various characters inflict on each other takes...
People tend to downplay the government's faults because they are not directly affected by the persecution, Tong says...