Sentence examples for does not play down from inspiring English sources

Mr. Dove does not play down to young listeners.

Mr. Kelly does not play down the need for Southwest to change its business, including finding ways to charge more per ticket and to reduce operating costs.

Mr. Ganz does not play down the circulation fiasco's effect.

In the Wizards' case, if Jordan does not play down the stretch, Washington will probably not reach the playoffs.

His time here is one reason he does not play down the magnitude of the championship game.

Taubman's biography gives a thorough account of Khrushchev's early career, and he does not play down Khrushchev's role in the 1937-38 GreaTerroror.

She lets them have their say, but she doesn't play down to them.

Although she doesn't play down her good looks, Ms. Keys takes pains to present herself as a musician first.

Viewers won't be disappointed to find a shrewd, scholarly survey of the subject, with works from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, that doesn't play down its libidinal charge.

(When he asks him what he makes of critics who say he wanted to go to war, Mr. Cheney shuts him down with dry sarcasm. "Wanted? Why, 'cause we like war?") Mr. Cheney, who uses the pronoun "I" so assertively that when he says "we," it sounds like the royal first-person pronoun, doesn't play down his authority in the Bush White House.

The staff do not play down the socialising element.