Sentence examples for downplaying from inspiring English sources

These changes, albeit a marketing, not a film-making decision, nevertheless stand in a time-honoured industry tradition of downplaying homosexuality.

Casualty figures are still unclear but the Syrian authorities seem to be downplaying the attack's significance.

Downplaying Russians' genuine sense of humiliation after the Soviet collapse merely makes it harder to understand Russia today.

Downplaying it all probably also helped survive it.

Today, he surprises me by downplaying much of what his book proclaims.

Faced with the sudden plunge in oil prices, Scotland's first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has been downplaying the SNP's quest for full fiscal autonomy in the run-up to the election, arguing it would be slowly phased in with continuing financial support from UK taxpayers.

He accused the Vatican of downplaying the rape of children in order to protect its power and reputation.

But neither side seems interested in escalating it further.Russia is also now downplaying its hostility to NATO-led exercises in Georgia.

Already this year unemployment has shot up by 750,000 to 2.8m, or 12.3% of the workforce.After initially downplaying it, Mr Zapatero has responded reasonably effectively to the slowdown.

Nor has the government, caught between downplaying the violence in Afghanistan and applauding the troops, been overly generous.

And they have, so the pollsters say, cast some unexpected light on the link between wealth and happiness.Ever since social scientists at the University of Pennsylvania found that mansion-dwelling American millionaires are barely happier than Masai warriors in huts, some economists have been downplaying the link between cash and contentment.