Sentence examples for Considerably downplayed from inspiring English sources

As Matthew Sweet adumbrates at some length in Shepperton Babylon, his superb book about early British cinema, Novello's achievements as a screen actor have been considerably downplayed over the years in favour of his music and theatre activities.

The company had considerably downplayed the odds of successfully recovering the booster for this particular test.

"We downplayed the seriousness.

Ms. Rose downplayed those issues.

Sympathetic analysts downplayed the news.

Kaminsky downplayed the event.

It downplayed Berlin.

But they downplayed those differences.

Considerably harder.

Yes, considerably.

It downplayed its role.