| They are rolling with the punches, hoping that the hard-liners will overplay their hand. |
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| People overplay the risks of cyberterrorism, but they underplay the risks of cybercrime. |
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| Yet within this rewarding social history, the authors occasionally overplay their hand. |
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| The issue of Alzheimer's is dealt with in a sensitive and delicate manner, which doesn't overplay the pity. |
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| The reason, he suggested, was that news reports tend to overplay the importance of any particular piece of information. |
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| It is difficult to overplay the importance of this kind of relationship for a child like Paul. |
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| My only complaint was that there seemed to be a niggling hesitation in some performances and a tendency to overplay parts of the text. |
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| Too many other bands either overplay their isolation or amplify their anger. |
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| It would be easy for an actor to mishandle any of these threads, to overplay key moments by slipping into self-indulgence. |
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| I do not think we have ever, at any stage, downplayed the risk to children, but it is important that we do not overplay the risk to children. |
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| This is another inexplicable effort by an actor to overplay a slow, strange character and teach everybody lessons. |
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| An actor has to be creative, but he can underplay or overplay his role, so a director has to control that. |
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| A sparse script and real sensitivity from the actors, none of whom overplay their role, only adds further to the film's power. |
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| It is important to not overplay weaker hands that look good at a big table. |
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| However, it is important not to overplay this scenario, since it actually illustrates the strength of our system. |
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| I also hope, however, that the European Central Bank realises that it should not overplay the subject of independence. |
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| Republicans here have their work cut-out, but there is always the possibility that the Democrats will overplay their hand. |
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| Having said all this, it is important not to overplay the Confucian card. |
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| The main hope for the Have Nots is a Republican tendency to overplay their hand. |
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| A creature of Las Vegas, he knows not to overplay his hand in this high stakes game. |
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| Their major claimed benefits may overplay the importance of sharing knowledge and expertise and underplay issues such as social conflict, cultural difference and opportunism. |
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| But, again, on that issue they have been shown to overplay their hand. |
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| Suddenly that Peter Pan collar looked a lot less like a failsafe staple and a bit more of a risky overplay of the hand. |
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| Though consumers may be annoyed, Sony does not want to overplay the problem of overheating batteries. |
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| If Kurds in Iraq overplay their cards on the issue of Kirkuk and the expected revenues from its oil fields, they stand to lose everything. |
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| Nor will it be a good idea to overplay the military dimensions of this challenge. |
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| I do not believe that is exactly the right conclusion, because economists are conservative and will not overplay the possibilities. |
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| He is counting on his opponents to overplay their hand, and a forgiving public to let him do his job as governor. |
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| Wells transformed old cheating and heart songs into soul music by resisting the overplay of emotion, writes singer Laura Cantrell. |
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| A U. S Treasury official, who did not want to be identified, said the media overplay the differences and the two sides achieved a great deal of convergence between their positions at the finance ministers' meeting. |
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| They were extremely quick, and I was amazed at how he did not overplay the piece, and how he could memorize it all so well that he could start at any point in the piece without difficulty. |
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| He is a young president in a hurry, with a tendency to overplay his hand. |
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| Do not overplay the fish, bring it in as quickly as possible. |
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| Even Pakistan's army chief suggests it is possible to overplay the threat from the giant next door. But no sooner were hopes of reconciliation kindled than violence erupted. |
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| I don't think it is possible to overplay the scary nature of this virus in that community, where people live in poverty, crowded together without even easily accessible water to wash their hands. |
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| One small word of caution: let us not overplay our role and move into an area where we might be overlapping the negotiating mandate of the Commission. |
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| Incidentally, it is also due to the fact that we have never pushed too far, that we have taken care not to overplay our hand', as they say in English, that we have been able to fill this role. |
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| It is important that clinician-researchers take care not to overplay the benefits of research participation to patients in vulnerable circumstances, who may be misled to enter trials with false hopes. |
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| A lot of times I don't want to overplay songs that I really like, because I know that then I'll get sick of them and I don't want to get sick of them. |
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