The Russia sanctions story, by contrast, is arguably being underplayed.
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The complexities of operating in Southeast Asia are often underplayed.
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Yet one crucial factor has been relatively underplayed: restructuring agriculture.
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Blevins' fear of harassment cannot be ignored or underplayed, either.
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The latter is particularly underplayed, and was the highlight here.
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J. R. felt irritatingly underplayed, with a rushed mumbling delivery.
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In 1999, Lindros felt team doctors had underplayed a rib injury.
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Harvard canceled her admission over concerns that she'd underplayed her crime.
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They were very underplayed with how much they made of the period.
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Mention of his three stars is conspicuously underplayed on his restaurant's website.
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"It's a very serious threat, and one that's often underplayed," Altier said.
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It turns out that the decisive moment is underplayed in the movie.
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She wouldn't take the shouty route — she's much more underplayed and calm.
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Even these activations were either too on-the-nose or a bit underplayed.
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The only catch was that the pharmaceutical company's literature underplayed OxyContin's addictive effects.
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Likewise, any emotional arcs are so underplayed as to be hardly worth mentioning.
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Trinh Van Quyet, chairman of Bamboo and FLC, underplayed concerns about competition and infrastructure.
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But when the big moment comes, it's so underplayed that it's easy to miss.
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Blaster Master is one of my favorite games of all time and massively underplayed.
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Some candidates have underplayed climate change thus far, though that is starting to change.
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Big Pharma seriously underplayed the risks of opiates in order to sell its products.
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This to me is such an underplayed part of the political moment right now.
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That bullish possibility has arguably been underplayed, given the strength of the current numbers.
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The Division's drollest commentary comes from the art directors that underplayed the post-outbreak grime.
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At various junctures over the last decade, executives at Volkswagen ignored or underplayed warning signs.
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He has consistently underplayed the potential for a serious public health crisis here at home.
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Ms. Brennan said that her daughter has, if anything, underplayed the chaos of her childhood.
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The social aspect of VR is, if anything, the most underplayed aspect of the whole thing.
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Ma's critique of capitalism is not particularly subtle or particularly original, but it is searingly underplayed.
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The EPA "has really underplayed the extent of contamination," said David Andrews, a senior scientist at EWG.
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Despite the accompanying blast of headlines, the implications of such extreme heat are often overlooked or underplayed.
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Manufacturers, such as Purdue and Johnson & Johnson, allegedly oversold the benefits of opioids and underplayed the risks.
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More culpable is the Nigerian government, which underplayed the crisis as Boko Haram lost territory last year.
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"In our material world, we have underestimated or underplayed the spiritual dimension of human action," he said.
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Prosecutors are investigating whether Boeing rushed, missed crucial safety risks and underplayed the need for pilot training.
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Prosecutors are investigating whether Boeing rushed, missed crucial safety risks or underplayed the need for pilot training.
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Her subversiveness and underplayed chic have transformed the actress, an Oscar contender, into fashion's unlikely new muse.
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And the boldest move of all — casting Reid as Meg, and making the character biracial — is curiously underplayed.
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When he was getting knocked out every other performance and fighting in ways that underplayed his many abilities.
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Volkswagen also underplayed the potential threat of the diesel problems, as well as the wrath of American regulators.
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Also underplayed in this year's report is one of the greatest human rights violations against girls: Child marriage.
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Even women who ask directly about pain ahead of time report may find that it's underplayed by doctors.
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The Fairs Cup may have begun life as a strange creature, but its importance should not be underplayed.
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Given Saitama's mild appearance and lack of self-righteousness, he's routinely underestimated, his heroic deeds usually underplayed or misinterpreted.
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The territorial, political, and cyber threats posed to the world by Russia and China cannot be underplayed or underestimated.
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As U.S. stocks surged Monday, CNBC's Jim Cramer says the markets may have underplayed the risks from North Korea.
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Even if the municipality has underplayed the marketing potential of the fish rain, however, the Catholic Church has not.
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The liberation of Iraq from ISIS -- and major gains against ISIS in Syria -- are significant achievements and shouldn't be underplayed.
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Then Dean Baquet, executive editor of The Times, even said this newspaper "underplayed" the article it published on the accusation.
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Elizabeth Marvel is wonderfully dry and underplayed and actually upstages her two co-stars in a tricky, and apparently subordinate role.
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" Oscar-winner "Spotlight" in 2015 about the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal was a "finely underplayed and ultimately heartbreaking crime mystery.
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While regretting and reprimanding the status quo, Kerry underplayed America's role in enabling the reality that he so eloquently objected to.
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The monologue erred on the side of sentimentality, but Mr. Pisoni underplayed it, and his hands moved with an eloquent grace.
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Thirteen states have filed lawsuits against one or more drug manufacturers, claiming they engaged in deceptive marketing that underplayed opioids' risks.
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Something I would add to that, because I think it's underplayed, is the Cold War, which is crucial for the Reagan alignment.
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It was the perfect target for a Veronica Mars-esque resurrection, sure — but even that underplayed how big the revival would become.
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"I think that the differences between the 737 NG and the Max were underplayed by Boeing," John Cox told the news service.
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Gay imagery was largely underplayed in "Bohemian Rhapsody," to the dismay of people eager for Hollywood to become less timid about homosexuality.
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The unsatisfying final result underplayed the excitement in a game that stumbled along for three quarters before turning into a nail-biter.
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But an underplayed dimension of this is that Fox has actually played a role in endangering the future of the Trump White House.
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From The Times: Dean Baquet, the executive editor, agreed with critics that The Times had underplayed the original report of Ms. Carroll's accusation.
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One person familiar with the issue said the true extent of their disdain for each other had actually been underplayed by the media.
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Some raved about its bold look and daring content, but others suggested it underplayed the satire; many found the explicit and misogynistic violence offensive.
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Lord Carey, the former archbishop, has since said that he and other church officials underplayed Mr. Ball's conduct because it did not involve penetration.
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The idea that Deckard isn't human is underplayed, but it becomes connective tissue throughout the film, and without that idea, it feels kind of disparate.
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Early in the film, his young daughter Karen dies of a brain tumour, but Armstrong, beautifully underplayed by Mr Gosling, goes straight back to work.
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"The cultural identity part of it has been underplayed by a lot of people who have focused on the economic drivers of it," Fukuyama said.
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In "Evolution," some big moments with the Whisperers are expertly underplayed, but for me, the most telling example in the entire episode is Henry's storyline.
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Funcom's woefully underrated and underplayed MMO is set to return this spring with a new title — Secret World Legends — and so, so, sooooo much more.
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A former Yale classmate said he would contact the F.B.I. today to tell agents that Judge Kavanaugh, during his testimony, had underplayed his alcohol use.
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Since arriving on the pop scene, Ms. Eilish has underplayed, and even willfully sabotaged, the vampiness that has long been deemed a prerequisite to stardom.
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MIKE SOMMERSPresidentAmerican Investment CouncilWashington, DC You underplayed private-equity's raison d'être as an active owner, which is in stark contrast to taking passive shareholdings in companies.
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Increasingly, some attorneys general have withdrawn from the probe to pursue lawsuits against drugmakers including Purdue, claiming they engaged in deceptive marketing that underplayed opioids' risks.
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He also pointed out that Facebook has promoted its ad targeting and influence when it comes to advertising, but underplayed its power in the political arena.
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Jeremy's been treading water to the point that even his bullet-riddled picture of Rachel is underplayed as just another reminder that he's not over her.
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He said the critics were right that The Times had underplayed the article, though he said it had not been because of deference to the president.
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I'm not sure her new one, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, will be a commercial hit – it's too intimately staged, too sensitively underplayed – but it is wonderful.
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Some academics, including Mr Kojo, are worried that the Finnish media have underplayed concerns about copper corrosion, compared with other countries with similar "multi-barrier" protection systems.
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But in the same way that the European bank stress tests have underplayed hot-button risks like deflation and sovereign bond defaults, Next glosses over potential pitfalls.
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A sought-after speaker once the movie came out, Mr. Cronauer would often note that Mr. Williams's film rendition of his sign-on was actually somewhat underplayed.
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Leon Botstein, that purveyor of all things underplayed, conducts the American Symphony Orchestra at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in a production by Anne Bogart.
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And the winners will be ... [The New York Times] • Isabelle Huppert's subversiveness and underplayed chic have transformed the actress, an Oscar contender, into fashion's unlikely new muse.
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Four years after releasing a report that critics said underplayed Lion Air's culpability in the crash, he joined the company, working his way up to managing director.
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In fact, that's one of the problems I had with the first pass of the script: Steve had underplayed his character, I think naturally because it was him.
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And it's true that some pre-election polls underplayed the size of Obama's re-election victory in 2012 and the Democratic mid-term election debacle two years later.
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The statement in 1994 probably underplayed the importance and likely persistence of theological differences, for example over the Catholic belief in venerating the Virgin Mary and the saints.
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"The concept of sustainability has been underplayed in 3D printing," said Tim Greene, a research director for global research firm IDC who specializes in the 3D printing market.
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Those deeply worried about domestic far-right terrorism believe United States authorities, across many administrations, have regularly underplayed the threat, and that the media has repeatedly underreported it.
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The underplayed component of the report may be the more consequential: Data taken from the manufacturer was used to phish its customers - more than 6900 U.S. elections officials.
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It's an underplayed pattern, but the show takes for granted that we understand exactly how the sense that something is wrong leads us to look for something better.
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The poor messaging caused speculation and further misunderstanding, and in some cases underplayed the severity of the situation given the reports on many people not actually returning the devices.
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If the sequences with the Sodbuster, as the opera dubs him, retain spooky force, it's largely because of Mr. Slattery's Miles, whose fear is underplayed and feels very real.
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Watts also suggests that as the mainstream media frets over the influence of such sources, it has somewhat underplayed its own still-vital role in shaping the public narrative.
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But Kaufmann underplayed Nietzsche's slippery elegance, and his choice not to translate "Human, All Too Human" and its successor, " Dawn " (1881), gave a skewed view of the thinker's development.
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He poignantly underplayed Nabucco's descent into madness — no flailing or wild eyes — and his heartfelt prayer, "Dio di Giuda," felt less a showpiece than a moment of sober intimacy.
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It's been underplayed, because of his fairly conventional policy views, but the rise of Emmanuel Macron is really one of the most striking political stories of the 231st century.
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It's so underplayed that the shock still lands, and crucially, the show never suggests that Logan shouldn't be held responsible for the terrible things he's done because he's been abused.
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Other Republicans close to the White House talk about the speech in terms of the potential to show a "highlight reel" of achievements they believe are underplayed by the media.
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So he, Patrick and the brilliant scientist Sandy Cheeks (Lilli Cooper, in an astutely underplayed performance), a squirrel (don't ask), must come up with a plan to save their world.
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In interviews, police officers and their supporters expressed frustration that Hong Kong officials and the local news media, as they see it, underplayed the violence on the part of the protesters.
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AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leon Botstein's ensemble, devoted to underplayed music, begins its Carnegie Hall season with a program of Walt Whitman-inspired European works by Othmar Schoeck, Weill, Schreker and Vaughan Williams.
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The Trump administration has signaled military threats and sanctions pressure very clearly, but it is less well equipped to integrate missing or underplayed components of a comprehensive policy for the Korean peninsula.
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It was just revealed in court filings that drug companies greatly underplayed the risks of opioids, while billions of dollars in marketing told people that pills were the only answer to their ailments.
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The rush appeared to signal disenchantment with Mr. Slimane, who in his debut collection for the house swapped Ms. Philo's deftly underplayed, slightly masculine swagger for a steamier rock-meets-young-Hollywood look.
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If he slightly underplayed the climaxes in the first movement, it may have been to throw attention to the third movement, Ruhevoll ("Restful"), the work's real center of gravity, with its grand closing climax.
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The final scene of To All the Boys I've Loved Before — in which Lara Jean confesses to Peter that she likes him, "and not in a fake way" — landed because it was so underplayed.
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In a widely-read Times Op-Ed last spring, the prominent human geneticist David Reich, of Harvard, argued that geneticists have underplayed the degree to which human populations are likely to have genetic differences.
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Whether the songs were unfairly underplayed, or tried a little too hard to push the "we're on an island!" vibes, here are tracks that tried, but ultimately failed, to become a song of the summer.
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At a time where the epidemic of opioid addictions—many the result of legal prescriptions—is one factor behind stalling gains for life expectancy in America, the costs of drug use should not be underplayed.
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I was particularly enamored of their choice to have Laura know her father's exploits mainly from X-Men comic books — a neatly underplayed bit of meta-commentary on how threadbare some superhero tropes have become.
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Goldman Sachs, one of the world's biggest investment banks, gave credibility to a deal dubbed the "unacceptable face of capitalism" by U.K. lawmakers and "underplayed" their role in negotiations, according to a critical report by MPs.
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Also underplayed is Avery's relationship to Halbach before the murder (she had described him in previous encounters as creepy and on the day of her disappearance he had requested her by name to photograph his car).
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As FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver notes: The potential for House Republicans to do electorally self-destructive things as they compete to see who's the MAGA-iest potential Speaker in the land seems like an underplayed story.
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If you only know Mastermind as a well-worn and underplayed fixture of living room closets and nursing home common areas, you may have no idea just how big this thing was in its early years.
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William Schubbe, a senior F.A.A. official who worked with the training group, told pilots and airlines in an April meeting in Washington, D.C., that Boeing had underplayed MCAS, according to a recording reviewed by The Times.
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Though Malcolm's monologue is flowery and obscure—a deliciously underplayed parody of his character—he appears to be talking about more than the mere fate of these dinosaurs, about a threat that pertains to the entire planet.
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It's an unexpected treat, one that reminds me to revisit RHCP's more awkwardly tender moments as much as it reminds me that Miguel's War & Leisure has been cruelly underplayed in the middle of this crippling heat-wave.
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And speaks to one of the most underplayed narratives of the first three-ish years of Trump's presidency: The total and complete capitulation of the Republican Party's elected leaders to the cult of personality that is Donald Trump.
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Even after significant pushback, the Commerce Department published a deficient report, which deliberately underplayed the negative impact on jobs in so-called downstream industries, which rely on inexpensive steel and aluminum from outside the US, the person said.
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"I think that the differences between the 737 NG and the MAX were underplayed by Boeing," said John Cox, an aviation safety consultant, former U.S. Airways pilot and former air safety chairman of the U.S. Airline Pilots Association.
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His statements, however, did not go down well at ABIN, Brazil's intelligence agency, or the Federal Police, where sources told Reuters the minister had underplayed the terrorist threat by portraying the group as a bunch of crazy young men.
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The fab Niecy Nash—who underplayed so effectively on "Getting On"—is Desna, the busty, brassy owner of the salon, a bejewelled money launderer who is being exploited and underpaid by a bisexual mobster called Uncle Daddy (Dean Norris).
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There's her brother, Remy (the wonderful Noah Harpster, also of "Transparent"), a Civil War reënactor and a former high-school jock, who lives alone in the attic; and her stepfather, Bill, a stoical weirdo, movingly underplayed by John Rothman.
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Goodell did not address that particular study, instead reiterating previous statements that the league has made several rule changes to reduce risks and is investing millions of dollars into research, but he underplayed the general effectiveness of concussion studies.
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The precedent of slavery in the conception of Gilead, which is alluded to in the epilogue of "The Handmaid's Tale" and acknowledged by Atwood in an introduction to a recent edition, has been consistently underplayed in the book's reception.
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Republicans have alleged that the FBI misrepresented the basis of its application for a warrant to surveil Page to a federal judge, saying the bureau underplayed the importance of the so-called Steele dossier, along with its partisan origins.
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If the intention was not to sound bellicose, it would have succeeded, though it surely underplayed the deterrent value of the Bahrain-based U.S. Fifth Fleet and other elements of U.S. Central Command, particularly U.S. Air Force contingents in Qatar and the UAE.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas grand jury on Wednesday indicted chemicals manufacturer Arkema North America and one of its executives on assault charges, alleging they underplayed the dangers of a fire that injured two emergency workers called to the site during a fire.
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According to a report from China's official court news service, prosecutors told the high court of Liaoning Province, where the case was heard, that the trial court decision had underplayed Mr. Schellenberg's crimes by treating him as an accessory in a failed crime.
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Previously, Puerto Rico's department of health had only reported about 35 cases in which a fetus was lost or baby was born with Zika-related birth defects, raising concerns that the extent of damage to infants has been underplayed on the island.
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Although the report documented lapses on Lion Air's part, like shoddy maintenance and undertrained pilots, examples of Lion Air's culpability were underplayed when the report was presented, dismaying critics who note that Indonesia, the world's fourth-most populous country, struggles with endemic corruption.
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In response to Christy's criticisms of climate models on a Senate panel in 2015, former US Navy chief oceanographer David Titley testified that satellites "are not thermometers in space," and noted the repeated past errors by Christy's team that underplayed warming in the atmosphere.
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HOUSTON, April 10 (Reuters) - A Texas grand jury on Wednesday indicted chemicals manufacturer Arkema North America and one of its executives on assault charges, alleging they underplayed the dangers of a fire that injured two emergency workers called to the site during a fire.
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Within minutes of walking into the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood hotspot, a staffer recognized the Grammy-nominated star, invited her to hop on the bar and gave her a microphone before she performed her anthemic (and wildly underplayed!) single "Diane" while dancing on the bar alongside two barmen.
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Its EU declaration of spending a modest 20.8894,21-20.8894,000 euros last year and employing just five staff working part-time on lobbying has prompted speculation that it may have underplayed its hand — though EU officials insist that they are not influenced by high-pressure corporate lobbying.
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But he said the now frequent speeches by Fed officials have led to too much emphasis on the timing of the next rate increase, de-emphasized the primary influence of the Fed chief in setting policy, and underplayed the amount of uncertainty facing the central bank.
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Its EU declaration of spending a modest 20.8894,000-900,000 euros last year and employing just five staff working part-time on lobbying has prompted speculation that it may have underplayed its hand — though EU officials insist that they are not influenced by high-pressure corporate lobbying.
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Conservatives have complained reporters have underplayed those highs in the leak-filled frenzy of covering Trump's early days — and they have celebrated when stocks respond to Trump's policy pronouncements, including his pledge earlier this month to do something "phenomenal in terms of tax" in the next three weeks.
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Yet Trump has also used his famous Twitter feed in recent days to highlight the achievements he believes have been underplayed by the media: the passage of tax-cutting legislation this month, the generally robust state of the economy, and advances against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Earlier he'd said how that aspect of his investigation has been underplayed will have a long-term effect on the US. In his report, the former special counsel disclosed that Russian hackers compromised local election systems of two Florida counties in 2016, a development later confirmed by Florida Gov.
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Twain, one of the least racist men of the 19th century, would surely have seen the choice as neither "right" nor "wrong," merely plausible and — as beautifully drawn by Erin Stead, and underplayed by Philip — the decision seems, to these eyes, neither ostentatious nor banal, just mysteriously apt.
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BANGKOK — Boeing faced new scrutiny on Tuesday over the crash of one of its planes into the sea off Indonesia last month, as airlines, pilots and regulators sought to determine whether the company had underplayed the complexity of a new emergency system suspected of having malfunctioned on the doomed jetliner.
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As Vox's German Lopez has explained, Trump has underplayed what's at stake on many occasions: Trump himself has tweeted comparisons of Covid-19 to the common flu — which [director of the Harvard Global Health Institute Ashish] Jha describes as "really unhelpful," because the novel coronavirus appears to be much worse.
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News of the outbreak was suppressed or heavily underplayed in Germany, France, the U.K., and the U.S. But Spain, like Switzerland, was neutral in the war, and its media had no qualms about covering the contagious outbreak weakening its population, creating the false impression that this was a Spanish disease.
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What follows is a serpentine, craftily arranged novel that spans decades and county lines, with underplayed walk-on roles by the urban activist Jane Jacobs; John Lindsay, a former mayor of New York; and the French high-wire artist Philippe Petit, who famously walked between the Twin Towers in the 1970s.
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REUTERS/Omar Sobhani Russia's underplayed losses in SyriaRussia's forces in Syria have suffered losses since late January more than three times higher than the official toll, according to evidence gathered by Reuters, a tally that shows the fight in Syria is tougher and more costly than the Kremlin has disclosed.
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None of these would be great themes for a kids' movie, but I think they're also underplayed because the film is more distinctly a riff on Batman movies and television than the run of comics (especially the satirical series Marshal Law, or anything by Frank Miller) that pushed that particular interpretation the most.
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Vulnerable countries, such as small island states imperilled by rising seas, worry that the findings of a recent UN-backed scientific report outlining the dire consequences of another half a degree of warming, on top of the 1°C which has happened since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, have been underplayed.
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In his research he found not only a president and Christian leaders who seemed uninterested in the problem, but also a federal bureaucracy that could be openly hostile to helping Jews, a news media that underplayed the shocking revelations about the exterminations, and a Congress and country where anti-Semitism and anti-immigration sentiment encouraged inaction.
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But Wilma Liebman, a board chairwoman under President Barack Obama, said the memo elevated the importance of factors that indicate a contractor relationship, like whether both the company and worker believe the person is a contractor, and underplayed factors that suggest employment, like the fact that drivers perform a function that is central to Uber's business.
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Mr. Adjei-Brenyah, the author of "Friday Black," a much-lauded collection of short stories exploring themes of violence, racism and the excesses of American consumer culture, arrived for an interview at The New York Times wearing an acid-washed jacket, a black hoodie and jeans, his outfit so standardized, so coolly underplayed, that it defied interpretation.
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