Word: downplaying
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While the "'Grand Jatte' Series" also shows many images of people in the context of modern, industrial structures, most of these pictures downplay the importance of the surrounding elements. Instead, many explore the distorting effect that Royal's hyper-focus has upon the sense of space. In many of these images, the dimensions of the space are unclear because the background which we would normally expect to see blurred is as detailed and precise as the foreground...
...important factors helped make the Pentagon's public relations campaign a success. First, the story was nearly all positive for the allies: courting favorable press coverage is much easier when there is little bad news to downplay or counter. Second, the war was short. Managing the news would surely have grown tougher if the ground war had dragged...
...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...
...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...