| His fans insisted that his naturalism and his underplaying refuted any residual sissiness that might be associated with acting. |
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| She is suitably endearing, though that is due to her natural looks and good sense in underplaying her role. |
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| Bill Pullman is the film's one pleasant surprise, nicely underplaying reporter and newsie advocate Bryan Denton and providing the film's few precious moments of calm. |
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| Yet just as it underestimated Russia's military resolve in Ukraine, Europe risks underplaying the potency of the disinformation threat. |
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| The real answer is that Mr Brown has been underplaying the real strength of the public finances. |
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| The former finance minister was good at low balling or underplaying the surplus. |
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| Some companies may have an interest in underplaying potential risks, for fear of losing customers. |
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| His laid-back attitude possibly disguises some internal strife for there is no underplaying the importance of every point won and lost at this stage. |
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| Ms. Faye is having altogether too much fun as Babe, and at first she seems to be overplaying the hoyden and underplaying the seductress. |
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| Labour, motivated by environmental idealism and fear of losing support to the Greens, has accused the government of underplaying the risks of oil pollution. |
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| It's a treat to see Bill Nighy underplaying his role as a reserved ex-miner, someone a world away from the woozy hipsters that are his stock in trade. |
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| The contestants always keep their weight on their back foot, underplaying their abilities as if their lives depend on it, because they understand that only self-deprecation can stop people from thinking they're a tit. |
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| But no competitor has yet produced a chip as cheap, powerful and versatile as the new Cell chip. That the chip is initially intended for a computer game may strike some as underplaying the technological advance. |
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| Here, without underplaying hazards, he offers a practical, balanced, engaging guide for serious sea kayakers. |
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| As well, there is the practice of underplaying or lowballing the federal revenues in his budget to always make it look like he is doing better than he had projected. |
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