Word: downplaying
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...Feldstein claims he is simply emphasizing parts of the President's budget message drawn up in January--aspects which the administration now wants to downplay...
...still express embarrassment over Luther's anti-Jewish rantings or his skepticism about political clergy, Communist East Germany has turned him into a secular saint because of his influence on German culture. Party Boss Erich Honecker, head of the regime's Luther-jahr committee, is willing to downplay Luther's antirevolutionary ideas, using the giant figure to bolster national pride...
Although most national coverage of industrial policy has allied its proponents with the Democratic Party, both Reich and Vogel downplay this association. Instead, they say, the group should have as broad a membership as possible...
Audiences will undoubtedly walk into Daniel thinking about the Rosenberg case and view the movie as a statement about the Rosenbergs. Ironically though, both Lumet and Doctorow downplay the parallel with the Rosenberg case, and consequently any social or political aspects of the film. For instance, they insist that the opening scene--a striking closeup of Daniel detachedly and encyclopedically describing the procedure of electrocution--is an artistic device. Lumet, who directed the film in addition to co-producing with Doctorow, calls the scene an interior monologue, designed to reveal how Daniel is objectively attempting to make sense of what...
...inclination in Washington has been to downplay both halves of the Soviet ultimatum. According to this attitude, the U.S.S.R.'s military countermeasures will turn out to be more political bark than military bite. As for a Soviet walkout in Geneva, that would be crazy, say many American officials. The Soviets would stomp out of the talks looking like the spoilers. That would put the lie to their advertisements for themselves as infinitely patient good guys in the eyes of Europe...