Sentence examples for an underplay from inspiring English sources

The effect was surreal and even discomforting, suggesting an underplay of the Freudian thoughts and serious issues that have previously touched the designer's runway.

A big-name band instantly selling out a small room: it's called an underplay, and it's becoming a standard gambit to get a new album noticed.

However, in the United States, the song did not perform well due to an underplay on radio but was able to reach the top of Billboards dance charts and became one of the decade's most successful dance hits.

In the music business, bands sometimes employ what is called an "underplay". That's when a popular artist books a venue much smaller than they could reasonably fill to build excitement for a new project or reward longtime fans with an intimate set.

Because of fears that a summons may underplay the seriousness of a criminal accusation, its use is restricted to only the least-serious misdemeanors.

To describe Wolitzer as a comic novelist would be to underplay a writer whose ironic voice and worldly insight place her in the same league as Anne Tyler and Alison Lurie.

And he can underplay an argument.

It is a true story, underplayed, a story of heroism, of magic and of madness.

Mr. Walston was satanic with a wry twist, underplaying a role that could have become villainous and singing wistfully about death and destruction in "Those Were the Good Old Days".

Pitt is a very fine actor who can both overplay and underplay a role.

Michael Sheen in the new version turns in a beautifully underplayed performance, but the result is a character who would not seem out of place in a novel by Mrs Gaskell, and whose final murderous act seems out of character and perfunctory.