| No right-thinking person wants to downplay this problem or its implications, but we are in danger of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. |
| Smooth-tongued spokesmen downplay a once-core assertion of the RSS: that to be Indian was to be Hindu. |
| Some people downplay emotion and pursuit of meaning and focus only on compositional beauty. |
| Even in the scene where he appears majestic, Ellison uses the comic to downplay his regality. |
| Judicial activists also downplay stare decisis, preferring to remedy perceived judicial errors. |
| As a manager, you should remember to listen to the good performers and to downplay comments from the gripers. |
