Sentence examples for are downplayed from inspiring English sources
verb
To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
- He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.
Since such things are impossible for the state to arrange, they are downplayed by penologists.
In line with current curatorial trends, overt displays of ethnicity are downplayed, and a certain blandness prevails.
This means that diagnoses are rarely formalized, the assaults and injuries are downplayed, and abusers are prosecuted under lesser charges.
These preoccupations have a distorting effect as more conventional anti-Semitic events - such as so-called "Jewish financial scandals" or horrendous but influential potboilers - are downplayed.
The study compares the potential of high-input GM farming with that of low-tech "agro-ecological" methods increasingly employed by small farmers in developing countries, and argues that the risks of GM are downplayed and its benefits overplayed.
Littler added: "Findings also suggest that where the media stress the Muslim background of attackers, and devote significant coverage to it, the violent response is likely to be greater than in cases where the motivation of the attackers are downplayed or rejected in favour of alternative explanations.
The EU is trying to downplay the issue but it wont be downplayed by our partners around the world".
This has been downplayed.
There have been recognisable achievements that shouldn't be downplayed".
They were downplayed and chic rather than showy and unrealistic.
But the politics of that supremely political generation is downplayed.
