Sentence examples for downplayed as from inspiring English sources

Still, she downplayed as much as she could, hating the grim set of her mother's mouth more than she could remember hating anything.

Notable examples where fatigue has displaced discussion and recognition of other more important factors include the Libby Zion case, in which trainee experience, seniority, and supervision [ 29] were highlighted but subsequently downplayed, as well as Landrigan and colleagues' landmark study of newly graduated physicians practicing in tertiary-quarternary adult ICUs [ 11, 12].

For most employees pay is a private matter, to be exaggerated or downplayed as circumstances dictate.

The announcement, which the company has downplayed as immaterial, could presage future problems for the company, according to Mr. Blodget.

But as brilliantly downplayed as Capaldi has been this year, his Doctor is still only about 85% there.

Austin described the battle for Kobani – which US officials have downplayed as peripheral to the anti-Isis strategy – as a target of opportunity, despite contending that Isis seeks to have the US divert its attention to marginal fights.

Moreover, George Bush's Senate allies once denounced the filibuster as the "formula for tyranny by the minority" and downplayed reconciliation as simply the "constitutional option".

Greene's management company have downplayed it as no more than "a slight niggle" but, after a pre-season involving double hernia surgery, the athlete himself had insisted he "could not afford any more setbacks".

In 1975 he reprised the role of Arnstein in the Funny Girl sequel, Funny Lady, and the previous year gave one of his most effective, because downplayed, performances, as the captain of a stricken cruise liner in Juggernaut.

While the company forecasts continuing growth in Q3, it will launch in yet another international market in Q4 and downplayed expectations as a result, saying that it was likely to end up "in the red".

Suddenly, my previously downplayed failings as a parent became glaringly obvious.