Word: overplaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Senator Trent Lott, the new majority leader. For now, Dole campaign sources say, they are not likely to exploit the scandal in a negative television ad. "A Morris spot would anger a substantial number of Republican heavyweights," says a Dole aide. "A scandal like this is too easy to overplay. You just stay out of the way and let it do its damage...
...things that makes Mike so hard to play is his inclination to feed," Anderson says. "He holds the feeding position very well, and that gives our team a dimension that other teams don't have. If you overplay him as a feeder, he dodges. He is very difficult to play because there is no one way to play...
...Waldholtz of Utah. "We're trying to address the legitimate concerns of people who think the pendulum has swung too far." Says Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, whose Contract with the American Family is the blueprint for much of the legislation: "We don't want to overplay our hand with a pro-life Congress the way the pro-abortion people overplayed their hand...
...advantage; she draws every eye to her, both on stage and off, with admirable seconda donna tactics. The conviction and simplicity of Josh Benaim's cameo "coat aria" in the fourth act place the aria closer to Puccini's original intentions than many a bass who overplay the fact that they are singing to a coat and end up looking, well, goofy...