Word: downplaying
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...that the 117-min., reverently competent Jesus is, after the Bible, among the foremost Christian evangelistic tools in Muslim countries is to downplay its reach. Considered something of a pious oddity at its 1979 commercial release in the U.S., the celluloid adaptation of Luke's Gospel has been translated into more than 830 languages and screened in every country on Earth...
...most worrisome comparison for the Bush administration may be in the duration. Vietnam, after all, saw U.S. troops tied down on a distant battlefield for ten years. Although he did his best before the war to downplay suggestions by uniformed officers that an Iraq occupation mission would be long and costly, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz now appears ready to acknowledge that U.S. troops could be there for the next ten years, and will probably require the construction of permanent bases - and also that together with the Afghanistan mission, the Iraq security mission will likely cost around $54 billion...
...Division of Applied Sciences faculty, for example, voted 23-3 in March to go on record as opposed to the Core plan, saying it would downplay the importance of science and technology courses—as there was only one natural science half-course requirement in the initial proposal—and would discourage better students from attending Harvard...
When he found out that French ex-pat Bourdon-Feniou had “got in a three-way, I thought, Lord knows what’s going on.” The reunited members of the third floor downplay the drama that ensued with the menage à trois...
...broken by the occasional seemingly incoherent and very British announcements. “Wicket looks a beauty,” observes the announcer. Despite the beautiful wicket, a member of the Indian team makes a slip-up on the field. However, a group of physics concentrators in the corner downplay the fumble, noting that “Even [Nobel Prize winner Richard] Feynman made mistakes...