| The mob scenes and concert craziness are actually underplayed, since no one would really believe the kind of mass frenzy the group created. |
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| Also underplayed by the media, but probably a hot topic in black barbershops, was another Census report last week. |
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| One or two things seem to me underplayed, but thought has gone into explaining and illustrating most genres. |
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| The baleful effect of overwhelming electoral landslides, usually worse than suggested by the cube rule, has also been underplayed. |
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| Peg, nicely underplayed by Margolyes, is a ball-busting wife and pushy stage mother. |
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| His vampiric tendencies are underplayed but you are never allowed to forget the beast below the surface. |
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| Either you'll be enthralled by his underplayed persona or drift aimlessly and inattentively away from his soporific compositions. |
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| It was uncertain, however, whether that figure was accurate or whether it underplayed or exaggerated the situation. |
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| But Prime Minister Blairs Government underplayed its importance, giving it little publicity. |
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| The current financial crisis is so severe and many-sided that its implications can hardly be underplayed. |
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| Despite its subject matter, the film is unsentimental and avoids the conventions of melodrama, with some of the most intense scenes being quietly underplayed and restrained. |
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| His dry and underplayed perf as paranoid numero uno keeps the pic afloat. |
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| The lack of public knowledge about these products was highlighted whereas the lack of such knowledge on behalf of producers was underplayed. |
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| Only in October, after arm-twisting by the government, did the company admit it had underplayed the risks it faced at Fukushima Dai-ichi. |
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| This classily produced and coolly graceful set features chunky Hot Club rhythm-guitar backings, lazily driving blues and subtly underplayed Hammond organ breaks. |
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| Marshall Loeb, the editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, thinks that, if anything, the New York Times underplayed the story at first. |
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| The extent and degree of the impact of Chernobyl fallout appears to be underplayed. |
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| You underplayed the constant deaths of immigrants, off both our coasts and in your island of Sicily. |
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| However, the focus on projects specifically underplayed the importance of processes and people through both formal and informal interactions. |
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| However, I think you have underplayed the importance of the remaining hard-security threats in the Balkans. |
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| The government, by its own admission, misunderstood and much underplayed the issue of the environment for Canadians. |
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| And yet, Bindra, as is his wont, underplayed the result, though he did admit he could be overcritical at times. |
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| With her Olympic medal and her prodigious work record, she is certainly a credit to him, but in common with most daughters of misogynous fathers she has not so much underplayed her own femininity as strangled it at birth. |
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| Also, the aggregation process has tended to provide a levelling down of the scores such that the true environmental implications of the proposal re underplayed. |
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| This dimension is perhaps underplayed in the Dakar Framework for Action, though reference is certainly made there to the Delors Report and its emphasis on the four pillars of education. |
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| A collective response by businesses in a single sector may be particularly effective, although the role of legislators and pressure groups should not be underplayed. |
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| While Italy is mentioned as a destination in seizures made in other countries, the lack of Italian seizure data means that the importance of the country is underplayed in the analysis. |
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| By concentrating on their own particular revelatory history religious groups have underplayed the universal message of peace and brotherhood, a message which is also part of their history. |
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| Some transitions were bravely lingered over, tempi elsewhere were unusually swift and taut,, and tempting brassiness was patricianly underplayed. |
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| The political undercurrent, as all films based on Clancy novels, is suitably underplayed and the focus is more on suspense and action. |
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| And almost half of Ireland's pros have hidden or underplayed a concussion to return to the field of play. |
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| One particular scene at the film's denouement is so perfectly and soulfully underplayed that one cannot imagine anyone else but Garfield pulling it off. |
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| The home secretary said aspects of the study's methodology concerned her, saying the research was disproportionately weighted towards London, focused too heavily on rioters and underplayed the role of criminality. |
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| Vivian Greig also claimed that the roles of herself and the two children from her marriage with Greig were underplayed in the book, the report said. |
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| What may turn out to have been underplayed by Ofsted is the degree to which the education authority is having to struggle with too little money to cover a very large county. |
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| It is recognised the site is underplayed due to poor quality. |
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| What did stir emotion was the underplayed manner in which Modi arrived, sat and then took the oath and the strains of the national anthem prickled the eyes for sure. |
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| The underplayed fruit is mostly strawberry with accents of lime, green pepper and cantaloupe, the whole adding up to a clean, crisp wine but with a sort of musky undertone. |
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| Her part in getting her husband re-elected should not be underplayed. |
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| He also underplayed concerns that the Chinese economy was slowing down. |
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