Word: downplay
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White speaks for all the winners when he says, "The goal in my column and in other stories is to examine and expose some of the nonsense that Americans continue to believe about race. Generally, whites tend to downplay the extent of their racism--and blacks tend to overplay it. We could use a lot more openness and honesty...
Since then, of course, she has been at pains to downplay her role in the Administration, retrenching into a more traditional First Lady persona. But as Bill Clinton was successfully learning to inhabit the role of President, Hillary's role-playing was less consistent. Very often in public she is smiling but remote, her eyes concealed by dark sunglasses. Even when she is having fun, as she clearly was last week, there is an unmistakable sadness to her, a pensive, fragile air that reflects four bruising years in Washington and the bone-deep weariness that campaigning brings. She speaks...
...sponsors have a tremendous influence on the way Fidelity manages its portfolios. Those managers are reported to have been prime instigators of the changes that Fidelity made last March. Although Fidelity tries to downplay such corporate pressure, Vanderheiden acknowledges that it was "one of the top three of four" reasons for the moves...
Modern archaeologists downplay the good King--bad King labels, which date to an apocryphal--and now discounted--tale told by the Greek historian Herodotus about how Khufu prostituted his own daughter to pay for his pyramid. Good or bad, Snefru ended up in the Red Pyramid, entombed in a magnificent three-room burial chamber that is considered the finest of the Old Kingdom. The chamber, with its 45-ft. corbel ceiling, remains. Its royal occupant, however, is missing. A mummy discovered in the pyramid in 1948 and believed to contain Snefru's corpse disappeared shortly afterward and has never been...
Seniors who have been nominated to receive summa degrees today downplay the award's significance and some express dissatisfaction with the way their honors distinction was determined...