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Dated references inadvertently betray the film's prolonged hibernation in development limbo.
Don't we have the right, even duty, to be outraged if they betray our trust and their own sworn oaths?
I notice his erect bearing, his poker face, only his moving cheek muscles betray that this man is under great tension.
To do otherwise would be to betray the trust that our patients place in us as advocates on their behalf.
The superciliousness of the educated knows no end, and may even betray a final anxiety.
Both symphonies betray the composer's interest in nature and its cyclical patterns.
The film's claustrophobic interiors also betray its stage origins and there are no real aerial sequences to provide relief.
We cared for our guests because not to do so would betray the most profound essence of our humanity.
It is people like you who are the true patriots, and people like them, who betray the rule of law at their whim, who are the traitors.
These last shots betray a sentimentality and patronizing attitude inherent in the film's setting.
And for a soap so rooted in farming country, Emmerdale managed to betray its past, by erasing foot and mouth from its collective memory.
Your attitude and demeanor can betray how you feel as clearly as inattentive service.
Such rote interpretative strategies betray a lack of imagination, like the cocktail-party boor who laughs at every wisecrack.
They betray constitutional indiscipline and lack real constitutional courage.
His eyes faltered at her inquiring gaze, but the rest of his body did not betray him.
The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen, which does betray the digital source of the film to some extent.
It is my contention that she didn't really betray anyone, and that the real agents of betrayal in all of this are the media.
What is certain is that any such withdrawal would betray the religious concepts of the state which animate the faith-based initiative.
Third, people can betray the work that they have been given by doing it poorly or dishonestly and corrupting the final product.
You betray relationships and friendships, and that's an unpleasant thing to do.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He had been so fierce, too, when Ayesha Layard threatened to betray his identity!
It is the rich materials of snood, plaid, and brooch that betray her birth.
But I never found courage to betray my lack of sympathy in all its iciness.
He resolved to pretend to be dumb, and he charged Terence not to betray him.
It was strange, however, that he should betray himself by such an inadvertency.
The deposites of alluvion along the banks betray a similar origin of gradual accumulation by the annual floods.
That a Diamond laid under the pillow, will betray the incontinency of a wife.
If Heman felt any surprise at her knowledge of his purpose, he did not betray it.
Thomas Reynolds, of Killeen Castle, entered their body on purpose to betray them.
With black powder it was useless to hide the gun, as its smoke must betray it.
Why betray them when they were doomed to be stifled in the breast that begat them?
We are not a superfluously civil people, and certain national characteristics betray you.
And loup the Lynx would do the same so that he could betray our hiding places.
Lucretia had none of the sweet feminine habits which betray so lovelily the whereabout of women.
The thought is developed too rhetorically, and the essays betray the limitations attending the life of a recluse.
He recalled the saying that a woman may keep her age out of her face, but her hands will betray her.
This man entered into a conspiracy with the English, to betray to them the King to whom he had perfidiously sworn allegiance.
For then leaving virtue, it falls into disdained baseness, which is the undoubtable badge of one that will betray society.
If I should become a nihilist, it would be to protect the emperor, not to betray your friends.
People have to eat will they nill they, that they may not betray themselves.
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