Sentence examples for play down for from inspiring English sources

To play to tens of thousands of people in an outdoor festival you almost have to play down for the sake of power and evenness.

When all the dust settles and we're getting ready to play down for the ninth inning, the greatest reward is to know that you did your job when you were here on the planet".

Mr. Bush said he is thrilled with Ms. Noonan's work, feeling that she has given silvery shape to his inchoate thoughts and has helped bring back the "thoughtful" side that he had to play down for months while he honed a more muscular image for a dubious public.

Veteran critic Ernest Newman, while acknowledging the "enormously difficult business of boiling [Sardou's] play down for operatic purposes," writes that the subtleties of Sardou's original plot are handled "very lamely", so that "much of what happens, and why, is unintelligible to the spectator".

The driving force behind the project was the Globe's director of music Bill Barclay, who trimmed the play down for a cast of five playing multiple roles, and reordered the contents of the suites to form a coherent musico-dramatic whole.

Indeed, the overall tone of the paper is cautious, playing down, for example, the potential benefits of principal reductions for owners whose mortgage debts exceed the value of their homes.

Relatively wealthy Americans are able to play down there for relatively cheap fares because of the low wage structures.

Most suggested (and many insisted) that the story was played down for political reasons.

Michael O'Neill, the Northern Ireland manager, and Neil Lennon, whom Deila succeeded, are being played down for now.

This proposed course of action, played down for months by the administration, suggests that in the absence of a strong coalition of countries, a largely American war will be followed by a largely American peace.

But activists fear that the importance of condom use is being played down, for religious reasons, rather than played up, as it will need to be if PEPFAR is to achieve its objectives.Nor are the activists pleased with the plan's arrangements on antiviral drugs, which are supposed to reach about 200,000 people by the end of this year and many more in future years.