0 present participle of downplay
1 to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is:
The government has been trying to downplay the crisis.
In fact, both governments and the newspapers they influenced had an interest in downplaying official involvement in the press.
Rather than either emphasising or downplaying the role of formal worker organisations, the authors describe a mixed history.
Commentators have also questioned our downplaying of "other modeling" in ordinary conversation and our claims about the nature of the difference between monologue and dialogue.
Conversely, those downplaying the ongoing role of the party were not necessarily less radical or totalitarian.
These changes have the same effect - downplaying satire and emphasising the romantic quest - and perhaps even the same cause.
Eliade's approach, then, naturally focuses on these ' modalities ', downplaying historical considerations in favour of phenomenological analysis.
Descriptions of resolution often focus on the resolution rule alone, downplaying the role of factoring in proof construction.
Focusing on big events, and downplaying our ability to predict means-ends relationships, ought to move our political beliefs closer together.
